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Steve never would have allowed thi....

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Well, I know I'm keeping my current MacBook Pro 13" until 2072 when it will be worth... 50 cents.
 
Wait but, what can you do in it? There's no screen, or paper.. How do you know what you're doing? and for what purpose?

Also a $666.66 price tag? That's so ominous. I'd never do that with the first computer of my company, whoa... Maybe in the future Apple computers will turn into the Matrix or something, controlling our lives... :rolleyes:
 
Prob like a 65mhz cpu with 1mb of ram, 325mb of storage haha

8 kb RAM and zero storage. No hard drive existed, only tape.

Maybe the box belonged to a trash-80.

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Wait but, what can you do in it? There's no screen, or paper.. How do you know what you're doing? and for what purpose?

Also a $666.66 price tag? That's so ominous. I'd never do that with the first computer of my company, whoa... Maybe in the future Apple computers will turn into the Matrix or something, controlling our lives... :rolleyes:

Monitors were separate. trash-80 had a built-in monitor. Commodore PET also had an all-in-one - except no hard drive.
We also had a Timex portable that stacked 8 KB memory into each other. It had no monitor.
 
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Me! Me! Me!!! I used one of those long, long ago. And the KIM. And Apple II. And Exidy Sorcerer. Wow. Long ago memories.

And an iPodTouch is about 6,000 times more power? Roughly. Give or take.

It would be cool to have emulators for all those old machines, including Classic MacOS9, that run on the new machines (e.g., Mac, iPad, iPhone, etc) so that the software from the past era could be used. There were a lot of great titles that have been lost.

I miss Armor Alley. That was a fun game. I heard it was supposed to be ported to iOS but I haven't seen it yet.

I still remember the license number for that game and I have the floppy at home.
 
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Wow, the next generation Mac Pro looks very capable!

;)
 
Me! Me! Me!!! I used one of those long, long ago. And the KIM. And Apple II. And Exidy Sorcerer. Wow. Long ago memories.

And an iPodTouch is about 6,000 times more power? Roughly. Give or take.

It would be cool to have emulators for all those old machines, including Classic MacOS9, that run on the new machines (e.g., Mac, iPad, iPhone, etc) so that the software from the past era could be used. There were a lot of great titles that have been lost.

Well…

http://www.openemulator.org
 
I still have a TRS-80 Color Computer buried somewhere.

What do you think that'd go for?
The Color Computer with the crappy chicklet keys that always stick?

I'm afraid you'll have to pay somebody to take it. I'd just park it on the neighbor's porch :D
 
The Color Computer with the crappy chicklet keys that always stick?

I'm afraid you'll have to pay somebody to take it. I'd just park it on the neighbor's porch :D

LOL. I used a tape deck for storage with that thing. Tape! Good grief.

I missed the Apple II period and always hated that. :(

Some time ago my dad threw out a working Mac Plus. Just tossed it in the trash!
 
That plastic casing looks quite good for the 1970s, or is it a different newer case?
 
I didn't realize that only 200 were ever made... I knew that it wasn't common, but I figured that it was a 4 digit number... how many Apple II's were ever made? What factor more of them were there (at least 100x I guess, right?)
 
I didn't realize that only 200 were ever made... I knew that it wasn't common, but I figured that it was a 4 digit number... how many Apple II's were ever made? What factor more of them were there (at least 100x I guess, right?)

Somewhere around 6 million.
 
investment growth?

$666.66 to $80,000 in 36 years, is only growth of about 15% per annum. I know, I know, with stocks and real estate being a bit of a crap-shoot, this is still good money... but how many of us are hoarding lots of useless, let's face it, crap, in a forlorn hope that it will be worth something some day? The chances of that old laser printer or Mac SE being worth anything significant in 20 years time are closer to nil than your chances of winning the lottery.
 
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