Part of the reason the Apple I is so rare, is that Apple offered an Apple I trade in program. Apple would destroy the boards of Apple Is that were traded in for Apple IIs.

* Not that there was really many to begin with.

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biofox 10 hours ago | parent [-]

What was the reasoning behind that?

	▲	Dwedit 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you. Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability.
	▲	paulryanrogers 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Probably to reduce support costs. I recall my junior high school had only Apple IIs in 1995.