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CharityBuzz to Auction Off Unique 'Celebration' Apple-1, Could Fetch Up to $1M
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I bet the value would go up if you could get Steve Wozniak to fix it himself.
You guys are being mislead. This is actually the new Mac Pro with a new high end innovative design and some astonishing specs according to Tim.
Good point.Sometimes it's better not to try to "fix" or "improve" something just because it's old. Remember this one?
It doesn't have a headphone jack!
Could this be the iPhone 7 chipset?
Could this be the iPhone 7 chipset?
This stood out in my mind also. 10% isn't exactly the expected result of a donation to a charity event. It is more like an action where the owner has decided to give 10% of the proceeds to charity.
Frankly the way it is presented is a bit sleazy.
It would be a nice satirical touch if they could have got Jony Ive to do one of his OTT videos about how the thing was designed, but I'm not sure Apple really does the self-parody thing
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I know but its confusing what model to look for. There's ED and SE. My Plus is newer than the M0001 model right?
A real 512 would also be great to have. My Plus only contains half the mold with the signatures on the inside. The 128 and 512s contain the complete serie signatures.
Wow, thats great!
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You kid, but in point of fact, I think you'll find the sockets are soldered to the board and the chips (mostly 7400 series logic) are simply pressed into the sockets.But it's all soldered though.....
Phew. I thought I was a bad person for wondering where the other 90% of the money is going. I guess 10% goes to charity and 90% to booze buzz.
Yes, it is like stripping the paint off a vintage car or motorcycle. While it may look used or broken, it is in a historically period state. Taking it away from that state devalues it.
I know one guy who bought a very vintage 1920's era Excelsior motorcycle. He stripped the paint, rebuilt and chromed the engine, put in new chains and even redid the seat. Took it to a local biker rally and was torn a new butt-hole for restoring it. Many though it was a reproduction. One old school biker was so upset that he took off the original paint of the Excelsior, a fight broke out with some blows on the noob's chin.
Never "restore" or "repair" and original, you'll ruin it.
[doublepost=1469182324][/doublepost]I'd love to see a Kick-starter style video introducing the Apple I as a group funding project.
Please stop posting articles like these!
I took a box of old computer 'junk' to the local municipal dump around 20 years ago and one of these was in it :-(
I took a box of old computer 'junk' to the local municipal dump around 20 years ago and one of these was in it :-(
Instead of getting excited over new Mac hardware, we're getting excited over some 40 year old antiques. Welcome to 2016, the worst Apple hardware year to date.
Hmm, those chips all look to be in sockets to me. The production Apple II's were socketed.
Still impressed that they can ask $1 million for a *broken* computer!
I have a fully functional Dell Poweredge server in my office that I have to pay a recycling place to come take away!
I have a fully functional Dell Poweredge server in my office that I have to pay a recycling place to come take away!
Eh, we have broken and outdated gear of all sorts sitting in museums all over the world - should we recycle all of it? If we emptied out and closed the Smithsonian, say, it'd make room for a bunch more WalMarts.
The Liberty Bell is cracked, but nobody ever talks of melting it down to reclaim the metal.This will sell for a high price because it's a rare piece of history, not because it can run old software (emulators will do the latter just fine).