If Woz built another one right now, what would you pay for it?
This is an excellent tutorial to build a working reproduction of the Apple I. Most of the parts are still in production while some are emulated in FPGAs. They even have the Gerber files for the board to fabricate.
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...building-an-apple-1-replica-from-scratch.html
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I had a computer class in high school where we used Apple ][e systems. It really is crazy how far things have come since those first came out. An iPhone has more storage space and RAM than all 30+ computers in that classroom COMBINED!
Yup. My one concern is that common consumer computer systems are so complex that learning to code them have become too high of an initial gradient. Back in those days, every computer booted up with a prompt and you can start coding in BASIC immediately. You also only had a keyboard to input commands in cryptic text.
Now, they boot into a desktop with a mouse or other pointing device. To get coding, you need to install a development environment with dozens of options that can overwhelm a novice. Xcode along has over a hundred command options just two levels into the initial UI.
If I was running a programming class, I'd have the class start off with the Arduino platform and the Arduino IDE to get the ball started. Have that LED flash! Then move to other programs like different BASIC IDEs and then to C programming.
While a lot of boot camps are promoting Swift, many are still not convinced of it as Apple is the only house with a compiler for it.