I wonder if Samsung will make copy's of it and sell it for 900,000.00? 
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I can think of only 3 customers for this item:
1-Wozniak
2-Steve jobs family
3-Apple Inc. and Apple is the only one with enough money and valid reason to buy this to show in their HQ.
Any museum who will pay $1m for this will probably never make that money up from ticket sales.
1-Wozniak
2-Steve jobs family
3-Apple Inc. and Apple is the only one with enough money and valid reason to buy this to show in their HQ.
Any museum who will pay $1m for this will probably never make that money up from ticket sales.
I agree that Apple should buy it. And then display it in their new spaceship. Past meets future.
Actually, there are quite a few folks in the tech industry who: a) have made yacht-loads of cash, and, b) who likely have considerable fondness for the original Apple computers (usually the II, but that could extend to its direct predecessor), as having been one of the machines/platforms that got them their start.
Also, museums are not usually for-profit businesses looking to make the most financially rewarding investments. The most likely path for this to a museum would be some wealthy benefactor who is fond of it and respectful of its place in history, buying it and donating it to a museum.
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They have to buy it. The new spaceship "campus" is designed such that insertion of an original Apple I acts as a sort of key to fire up the warp drive engines. Without this Apple I, the new "campus" will never get off the ground.
We all know where this is eventually headed: "Apple introduces sheet of paper with complete wireless cellular-connected computer incorporated into it, that you can fold up and take with you".
Followed the next year, inevitably, by, "Apple introduces thinner sheet of paper".
They might be fond of it, but not for $1m to hang it in your living room. I hope you understand how much is $1m. You can seriously help a developing country by building school"s", building water well"s", and building care homes for orphan"s" for that kind of money.
I completely understand how much a million dollars is. And I didn't say I thought it was a good idea for an individual to buy it, simply that it was entirely possible for that to happen. The merits of other possible uses for such money don't affect the correctness of the statement that there are many individuals who could buy it,
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I get this, but come on.... it really depends on what the BUYER wants to accomplish / do with the item purchased, at the end of the day.
If I was extremely wealthy and wanted an original Apple computer in my personal collection, I might be someone who actually wants to be able to power it on and show people how it worked. If that requires a small repair that can be done using the right parts, that shouldn't be a huge deal. (Who is going to care that the solder you used when re-soldering might not be the exact same formulation as what was used back then? If it's an IC chip that needs swapping? You'd have to find the identical part anyway. Should be possible to obtain a used, working one somewhere that was manufactured in the same time-frame as what came on it.) For the right price, I bet you could get Woz to do the repair on it personally. (He's still active on Twitter and is always telling people where he's at when he goes out to eat or to the movies or what-not. He's a pretty highly visible guy in social media.)
The "never restore or repair an original" advice is partially B.S. Only people who purely look at these purchases as "art" would think that way. I have several friends who collect vintage guitars and I assure they DO get them repaired when they're not in playable condition for some reason. Fact is, no matter how collectible - they're supposed to make music. If they can't do that anymore, they deserve to be in the hands of someone who cares enough to bring them back to having that capability again.
If I was extremely wealthy and wanted an original Apple computer in my personal collection, I might be someone who actually wants to be able to power it on and show people how it worked. If that requires a small repair that can be done using the right parts, that shouldn't be a huge deal. (Who is going to care that the solder you used when re-soldering might not be the exact same formulation as what was used back then? If it's an IC chip that needs swapping? You'd have to find the identical part anyway. Should be possible to obtain a used, working one somewhere that was manufactured in the same time-frame as what came on it.) For the right price, I bet you could get Woz to do the repair on it personally. (He's still active on Twitter and is always telling people where he's at when he goes out to eat or to the movies or what-not. He's a pretty highly visible guy in social media.)
The "never restore or repair an original" advice is partially B.S. Only people who purely look at these purchases as "art" would think that way. I have several friends who collect vintage guitars and I assure they DO get them repaired when they're not in playable condition for some reason. Fact is, no matter how collectible - they're supposed to make music. If they can't do that anymore, they deserve to be in the hands of someone who cares enough to bring them back to having that capability again.
You can also buy a Ferrari right after your IPO and wreck it on a waterside road right into a wall as you miss a turn. It all comes down to preserving market value or making it a consumable.
Those whom value antiques and collectable will care. There has been classic pieces of Americana folk art going back to the early 19th century that was "repaired" and it lost 90% of its valuation due to the change of original state.
Dated and period ICs are becoming a collectors market. Some of the hottest antiqued IC markets are original Intel 4004 processors and first generation Fairchild 7400 logic chips.
It all comes down to the agreement of the market. If you want to talk guitars, I know of one guy that found a first generation, 1954 Stratacaster and restrung it with new metallic strings and even rewired old parts of the original pickup to working order. He brought it to a guitar show and it got a lot of attention. Many criticized him for using newer strings and attempting to play it. Things like that should just be kept under glass and showed off.