THE RAREST, MOST IMPACTFUL APPLE.
Original Apple II Personal Computer, Cupertino, CA: 1977, approx. 455 x 385 x 100 mm, serial no 62, motherboard no 1-258, with additional material:
1. Disk ][ Interface Card and cable 650-x104, 1978
2. Shugart 5 1/4 floppy disc drive
3. JDR micro 16k RAM Expansion card & user manual
4. Perisoft Printerlink card, cable and user manual
5. Apple Communication Card 670-x003
6. SUP "R" MOD II Ch. 33 TV Interface Units (2), Black & White or Color. Sunnyvale, CA: M&R Enterprises, n.d.
7. Joystick. Vista, CA: Kraft Systems, n.d.
8. Homemade APPLESOFT Language card.
9. Space Wars. Peterborough, NH: Instant Software, 1979. Cassette in case.
10. Beneath Apple Manor. N.p: Quality Software, 1980. Cassette in case.
11. Home made Cassette containing a) APPLESOFT Language b) Lemonaide c) Flight Simulator d) Apple Vision e) Deep space d) ICBM
12. VisiTerm San Jose: VisiCorp, 1982. Original box/slipcase, original binder containing manual and diskette.
13. Hellfire Warrior Mountain View, CA: Epyx / Automated Simulations, 1980. complete with box and all content including Epyx Game Catalog. 5 1/4 floppy
14. Lords of Karma. Baltimore: Avalon Hill, 1980. Original box and all content including cassette.                      
15. APPLE ][ Reference Manual. Cupertino: Apple Computer Inc., 1979. Original wire-bound wraps.
16. Poole, Lon, Martin McNiff & Steven Cook. APPLE II User's Guide. Berkeley: Osborne, [1981]. Original wrappers.
Provenance: Purchased by the present owner in 1980 from the original owner.

HERALD OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER REVOLUTION.

The Apple II (trademarked as "Apple ][") released two months before the TRS-80, was one of the first successful attempts to make a personal computer for the consumer market. Steve Wozniak designed the system around the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor and it was able to display high-resolution color graphics, had sound, game paddles, was expandable, had an innovative switching power supply, was fitted with a high-quality keyboard and it included Wozniak's Integer BASIC on the ROM. The Apple I was the first personal computer that could use a monitor and a keyboard, but "the Apple II was the first low-cost computer which, out of the box, you didn't have to be a geek to use" (Wozniak p 188). Of course, Steve Jobs' influence is seen in the handsomely designed case, the layout of the board, even the power supply. "Job's father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. He rejected the initial design because the lines were not straight enough" (Isaacson p 74). More importantly, the Apple II fulfilled Wozniak's goal, which was "a computer build to encourage more hacking—a Tool to Make Tools, a system to create systems" (Levy pp 246-247).

It wasn't long before small companies sprang up creating games and other software for the Apple II and were trailed by a host of companies creating expansion boards to fill its 8 slots. "Within a year a whole Apple II industry sprang up with dozens and dozens of companies of little guys..." (Wozniak p 210).
The Apple II drive and what many consider Steve Wozniak's greatest achievement, his floppy disk controller, considerably improved the usability of the computer. It was this combined with the "killer app" VisiCalc, which was issued only on diskette, that transported personal computing from a hobby to a powerful tool for business.
Steve Wozniak explains: "From 1,000 units a month, suddenly we went to 10,000 a month. Good god, it happened so fast. Through 1978 and 1979 we just got more and more successful.
By 1980 we were the first company to sell a million computers. We were the biggest initial public offering since Ford. And we made the most millionaires in a single day in history up to that point.
I believe the whole reason for this was the combination of the Apple II, VisiCalc, and the floppy disk" (Wozniak p 220).
The present example of the Apple II is one of the rarest of all Apple computers - a Rev 0 Apple II in an unmodified ventless case. Users saw overheating issues almost immediately and within 3 months of production ventilated cases were being produced and were offered as replacements at no charge. Most Rev 0 Apple II therefore, are found with the ventilated case or with DIY solution to the issue such as an installed fan or self-cut vents. This example was obviously kept by someone particularly careful. All of the other early issue points not seen on later revisions of the Apple II are present such as the low serial number, the large prototyping area from A-11 to A-14, no transistor near location F-13 and, of course, the 1977 copyright date under the logo on the motherboard. There are undoubtedly less ventless Rev 0 Apple IIs with an unmodified case in existence than Apple-1s. The true unicorn of early Apple computers.
Isaacson. Steve Jobs. NY: [2011]; Levy, Steven. Hackers. [NY]: Penguin, [1994].; Wozniak, Steve. iWoz. NY: [2006].