In 2012, a few of us at ZDNET backed the Pebble Kickstarter project, which became one of the most successfully funded projects at the time, with nearly 70,000 backers pledging more than $10 million.

Specifications for the Apple I included a MOS 6502 processor clocked at a whopping 1MHz, 4KB of memory that was expandable to 8KB or 48KB via expansion cards, a 280 X 192 monochrome display ...