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Functioning Apple 1 Sells for $375,000 at Sotheby's Auction
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I bought a new iPhone 2G when it first came out. It's still in the wrapper, and will stay that way for as long as I'm around. Yes, I paid too much for it, but I felt at the time that it could hold some sort of historic value.
Over stating it a bit aren't you?!
Shame I only had $374,000 to spend.[/QUOTE
Without it, or without it being a success, would Apple be here? Smartphones like they are today? Tablets, music, and more.
Yes, someone else would have thought of everything.
Sigh... One must remember the time frame in which this was released.So many young, idealistic people with so much hope for their lives & our world. I'd hazard a guess that the unknown collector might remember those times. He/she might well have bought not only a piece of computing history but also a memory of a time when the future seemed bright indeed.
Like diamonds or artwork. You show off to your friends that you have so much excess money that you can afford to buy and just look at them.
That machine sparked a change that changed the world. That is an incredible deal. Those days were fun if you had a computer in the 70's and early 80's. It is a shame a lot of people missed out on that era.
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
What is the current market value of the first GE, DuMont, or RCA television set?
What is the current market value of the first GE, DuMont, or RCA television set?
Is AppleCare included? If not, it's worth only $374,500 at the most. Those parts can't be cheap to repair out of warranty!
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Since you can't take someones soul... One must pay in full to the devil if he dares taking the forbidden fruit.
what more needs to be done? didnt you just define a collectable? what, you never had baseball cards or ?
The 1970's sucked. High unemployment, gas lines, high inflation, Disco, surrendered to Viet Cong, Chevy Corvette = 155HP, and more Disco.....
But, South West Technical Products had a terrific PC that predated Apple.
Wish I had them both :-D
I do have a JOINER made by myself of David himself!!! (I was a art student in London and he allowed me to take various pics while at a presentation of his works in London, it was for one of my projects, my art teacher almost died on the spot when I presented my work!
Lucky you! I love Hockney's work!
How do they expect anyone to take this seriously when the RAM is soldered straight to the logic board?!
Plus, where's the 20mA current loop interface? S100 bus? No pro is going to buy a computer that won't connect to a Teletype 43! What about optical storage - what am I going to do with my punched tape version of Colossal Cave?
I'm sure you could pick up a fully-specced Altair for les that $200,000. Lame.
(Seriously, though, you could probably solder more RAM piggy-back onto the existing chips, snip and bend up the chip select pins and run patch wires to the address bus, via a bit logic hanging off on a bit of Veroboard. OTOH it was nerve-wracking enough doing that sort of thing to a computer that cost a few hundred, let alone a few hundred k... You'd need a smaller soldering iron to do it on a retina MBP, though).
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How do they expect anyone to take this seriously when the RAM is soldered straight to the logic board?!
ACTUALLY if you look closely you'll see all the chips are socketed!
The Bill Gates Foundation bought it for their lobby. They needed the tax write off after donating billions to charity.
You dont know who bought or what else they do with their money. I dont see the need to drag whoever it is down why do you?
That's a bit of an overstatement. While indeed a historic artifact, this computer doesn't even come close to being one of the most important artifacts in world history. If you think it is, then you really need to take a world history class.