It is a little strange how their early branding may suggest a religious implications by the use of the *bitten apple* as the brand logo and then pricing their first product, Apple-1 for *$666*.
I do not buy anyone's comment that it was a coincidence. These guys were not dumb nor naïve.....
Don't know how you read that into it, and I could be totally off here, but I'm pretty sure it was a depiction of Sir Isaac Newton watching the apple fall from the tree, and whilst enjoying a bite of the fruit, formulating his
Universal Law of Gravitation. A fitting logo and typical Jobsian touch.
The price: another bit of whimsy perhaps by those two 'kids' just like their incorporation date of April Fools Day.
While a working IBM PC sells for 14.95$ plus shipment...
Don't be cruel! It might have been a fairly large/heavy box, so the shipping might actually be more? lol
On a more serious note, IBM in 1980 was a dominant business powerhouse selling typewriters and business mainframes, so their 1981 IBM-PC wasn't as much of a new trend as it was a logical extension of their business offerings. While this new-fangled IBM-PC was developed and came into existence on the 'watch' of Frank Cary and John Opel, they didn't truly create said computer, more of a collaborative effort born out of the company's extensive computing knowledge. So it's hard to pin the credit for the IBM-PC to any single individual.
MICROSOFT's Bill Gates on the other hand (with Paul Allen), while not the creative genius Steve Jobs was, has almost singularly been credited with the foundation of MICROSOFT. Through this, he has also done a lot of good to better this world, and especially recently with his philanthropic foundation. Perhaps one day original/initial copies of MICROSOFT Basic or MS-DOS will fetch respectable sums, although with the millions of copies distributed, it might be difficult to ascertain such authenticity.
Either way he too is
most certainly guaranteed a place in history.
