Rare Apple-1 Computer Sells for $375,000

[Rafagon]

It looks interesting but I wonder what this computer could do ?

Not Apple Intelligence, for one.

 

[npmacuser5]

Only 40 columns!? I don't think there's any Java class name could be displayed in so few columns without wrapping or something!

I suppose that explains how incredibly terse a lot of the early languages were... and maybe why DOS limited you to 8+3 filenames. I know the Apple I wasn't running DOS (or was it?) but it was a contemporary and they would have had similar displays they were outputting to.

I'm surprised there's no keyboard included. I get the expectation that the buyer would have a TV for output, but... why would somebody have an ASCII keyboard laying around unless they had a computer? Seems like a chicken and egg situation... were there really a ton of ASCII keyboards to buy when there weren't many home computers, or does it have some other utility that predates a computer? Like... maybe for faxing or typewriting...? I am arguably middle aged but... the Apple 1 predates me by nearly two decades so the world it was in is foreign to me.

There is a built in interface for a video monitor. No application, but access to machine language hex coding. Thus, one could write in machine language and execute the code so a larger screen could be used. Note the comment, Apple 1 a learning tool. One of its best options. Complete access down to the CPU registers in machine language. I wrote my share of boot loader etc code for early computers in machine language before assemblers.

 

[Kevin2055]

It looks interesting but I wonder what this computer could do ?

programming, play games

 

[tonywalker23]

It looks interesting but I wonder what this computer could do ?

Pave the way for the future in such a way that two people who joined this forum in 2003, 22 years ago, could use its predecessors to comment on it being sold for over 1/3 million dollars.

 

[TVreporter]

Can we get a comparison to the M4 MacBook Air?

- Spec guy

 

[Cameront9]

Wikipedia: "The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66"

There's something unusual about that number, although I can't quit put my finger on what...

It was picked because Woz liked repeating numbers. That's all.

Anyway, someone way WAY overpaid for that Lisa. 56k for a machine that's been going for 10k at the most? Was it in the box or something? It's not worth nearly as much as that. They're rare but not that rare.

 

[emulator]

My dad still has his and he said he’s never selling it.

Does he know he can't take anything with him to the other side?

 

[pappl]

How much faster is the M4 Max compared to the first generation Apple device?
🤓

 

[Agent007]

Does anyone know how an auction house authenticates a "sealed" iPhone? What if someone resealed a mint condition used phone? What if it's a clone? Unless they open it and power it on how can they know for sure?