I noticed a number of online posts today commemorating the anniversary of the “introduction” of the Apple-1 on April 11th, 1976. Can anyone tell me what, if anything, actually happened on that date?
And I’ve also been wondering if all Apple-1 computers were assembled in the Jobs residence or were later ones (NTI) assembled elsewhere?
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I don't believe they assembled anything in the garage. The boards were assembled by automation. I think it's been discussed many times that building computers in the garage was a myth...
For the NTI boards (and some of the later pre-NTI boards) it seems their final assembly (population with chips and testing) were done on demand. I think this means some were done at the Jobs home and tested in the garage before shipping, but it does mean a few of the last ones could have been done from the Apple office. As to which boards were done where... good luck there aren't any serial numbers.
I hate to disagree with Chris Espinosa, but there is evidence that boards were still shipping in early 1977 and they were sitting on a shelf at the Apple office fully wave soldered with sockets and descrete components from NTI sans chips and jumpers. This is how some later Apple-1 came with Synertek 6502 vs MOS. The Synertek were used on the first Apple II machines and boards. Also according to Dan Kottke and Woz, it wasn't really the garage used for primary final assembly, but testing and boxing up. Patty was stuffing chips on the living room sofa for example before Dan took over that task.
Now Chris is 100% right, if you have chips dated past the 1st couple of months of 1977, then they were replacement parts.