Handwriting analysis has solved a long-unanswered riddle.
Steve Wozniak said he didn’t do it; Steve Jobs supposedly said it wasn’t him, either; Daniel Kottke, who assembled and tested some of the boards, denied it; and all of the board makers maintained their innocence. One of the leading theories was that the Byte Shop, which had purchased the first 50 Apple-1 computers, was responsible, except that owner Paul Terrell said he hadn’t done it, either.
Achim Baqué, the curator of the Apple-1 Registry—a database of every known Apple-1 computer—was determined to solve this long-standing riddle, so he jumped on a plane from Germany to Los Angeles with two Apple-1 computers and put them in the hands of PSA, a handwriting authentication company dealing mainly in sports cards.
Along with these rare, valuable computers , the PSA collected photos of every handwritten number on Apple-1 computers and various other writing samples. The company then set about evaluating the evidence by identifying various characteristics, including slant, flow, pen pressure, and letter size. After three months of research and examination, Achim Baqué with help from the PSA had finally solved the mystery: I
t was Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who had penned those numbers. Why he marked these particular units is a secret that will forever remain unsolved. It’s possible he forgot, but I prefer to think he did so knowing that he was planting the seed of what would become the world’s most valuable company.
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