Original Apple-1 Computer up for Auction!

[Pablo]

http://www.vintage.org/special/2003/apple-1/

The original owner of this computer bought the machine in 1981 at an Apple users group meeting in Santa Clara, California. By this time, the Apple I was at least 5 years old, and while it was by then obsolete, it still had a user base.

He arranged a visit to Apple Computer's headquarters in Cupertino, California, to discuss the possibility of adding disk drives to the computer. This Apple Computer visitor badge was left as a memento of his visit.

Wired has a story on it.

 

[MacFan25]

that thing looks old.

 

[beez7777]

Those things are sweet. I saw and (don't tell anyone) touched one at the smithsonian in washington.

 

[moby1]

I saw the one in the Smithsonian too.

You touched it?Wasn't it in a glass case?

 

[mc68k]

i hope this one fetches more than the last one. it looks like it belongs in a museum, so cool.

boggles the mind to think all apples came from that computer.

 

[Jaykay]

ah sweet my dad had one of them, i think it still might be around somewhere.. ill have to have a look for that.

 

[beez7777]

Re: I saw the one in the Smithsonian too.

Originally posted by moby1
You touched it?Wasn't it in a glass case?

nope. i thought it would be, but there it was, in all its glory, just sitting on a table behind a barrier thing next to a some other cool stuff. i could touch it by simply leaning over. it was really nice. too bad i forgot my camera. some of the keys were missing, though.

 

[rt_brained]

I'd still take that over a P4 any day.

 

[gerror]

Where is the monitor? Or should it be connected with a tv like the C64?

 

[mc68k]

Originally posted by gerror
Where is the monitor? Or should it be connected with a tv like the C64?

these PCs were home hobbies at the time, thus there were no 'monitors' in the sense of standardized CGA etc.

just prob a coax out to a standard TV set.

for more info go here: http://applefritter.com/apple1/

 

[timbloom]

ahhh, a classic. Those things hardly sold at all, that is why they are so rare. And they didnt come with a case, so many probably never survived more than a couple years. Especially after the apple II craze. Woz designed that computer you see there. What a brilliant man, computing for the masses!

It would have ended up being a Hewlett Packard, if the people there didn't refuse to use Woz's design. They thought it wasn't a marketable idea. Now look at them.

 

[burritos]

Did anyone else play snoogle, karateka, lode runner, ultima, wizardry and sammy lightfoot on the the first apples?

 

[rainman::|:|]

it was assembled exactly a year before i was born

i think that's a sign to buy it...

edit: oh, that's a visitor pass. still, it's kind of a sign, right?

pnw

 

[mikulashek]

how much do you think it will go for?

 

[mc68k]

Originally posted by mikulashek
how much do you think it will go for?

$15 - 20K with all that it has prob.

last mobo that sold worked, but didn't go 4 much. this one 'looks' the part IMO.

 

[Gus]

Mmmmm.....Apple.

D'oh!



Regards,
Gus

 

[mattmack]

Originally posted by burritos
Did anyone else play snoogle, karateka, lode runner, ultima, wizardry and sammy lightfoot on the the first apples?

I palyed Lode runner II on my apple IIe

 

[mc68k]

it went 4 $14000

http://www.vintage.org/special/apple-1/status.php

 

[jethroted]

A computer in a wood case? What kind of cooling can you get from that?!? That thing must have been hot as hell! Oh wait, those only had what, a g-1? I guess it wasn't that hot. (just kidding). I can't beleive it went for $14000. I should dig around in my schools grave yard and see if I can find one. I could use that kinda cash!