Rare Apple-1 Headed to Auction in September

[Luap]

These days you can't even solder in your own capacitors. Thanks, Tim.

Huh?? Theres nothing to stop you changing capacitors in modern gear if you want to. You just need the right skills and tools to handle surface mount components.

Surface mount components which incidentally have been used by every major electronics manufacturer for well over 20 years. They are not unique to Apple.

Or was that a joke?

 

[keysofanxiety]

Huh?? Theres nothing to stop you changing capacitors in modern gear if you want to. You just need the right skills and tools to handle surface mount components.

Surface mount components which incidentally have been used by every major electronics manufacturer for well over 20 years. They are not unique to Apple.

Or was that a joke?

A joke? The only JOKE is the state of Apple's Pro market by DECIDING what components we should have in our computers. Now if I want to have a terrible AM radio which only picks up static, I need to BUY a separate dongle rather than SOLDERING it into a computer. Thanks, Tim.

It's - not - PRO - dammit *slams table professionally*

 

[Killa Aaron]

It's a collectible. It's only value is intrinsic. Oftentimes the people bidding on stuff like this don't really care about it. It's an investment and curiosity to display. Those just looking for an investment drive up the cost for actual collectors who love it. In the bet that those collectors will pay more for it in the future.

Why spend a few million on a Picasso? You can hire an exceptionally talented artist to reproduce a copy in exquisite detail for a couple thousand.

Why buy a signed Babe Ruth homerun baseball? The sporting good store sells a pack of new baseballs for a tiny fraction of the cost. They'll hit better too.

I understand what you're saying but a unique painting from Picasso is different from 200 of the same model of computer assembled by Steve and Woz, Picasso wasn't selling 200 of the same painting.

 

[lec0rsaire]

Nice piece of history but not worth the price. Apple is still very popular today and this generation still has fond memories of Jobs and Wozniak but there is no guarantee that this will be the case a couple of decades from now. A computer is not a ‘59 Les Paul or a Stradivarius. Art is also different because the wealthy will always want the privilege of having museum quality pieces on their wall and the supply of the best stuff has dried up and does not come up for sale very often.
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Why spend a few million on a Picasso? You can hire an exceptionally talented artist to reproduce a copy in exquisite detail for a couple thousand.

Why spend a few thousand when there is a village in China where artists specialize in copying certain paintings and do nothing but reproduce them every single day. These can be had from under $100 to a couple hundred depending on the size if bought over there.

As for the real deal, no reproduction will be like the real thing. They will look similar but the exact colors and strokes can never be matched. It really depends on the artist. If we’re talking about someone like Warhol, then having an original is really not a big deal at least imo.

 

[Misuteri]

I wish Apple still sold 1980s hardware on their website instead of selling 2013/2014 hardware.

I’d settle for an iPod Shuffle.

 

[Bob-a-ROM-DOS]

I may be a newbie here but as an IT professional of >50 years and the owner of this Apple I, I'm proud to say that I acquired this machine as a valuable investment 41 years ago.

 

[joeblough]

I may be a newbie here but as an IT professional of >50 years and the owner of this Apple I, I'm proud to say that I acquired this machine as a valuable investment 41 years ago.

so what's going on with the soldermask? is it peeling up from the traces? does it need special care to prevent it from completely delaminating?

 

[Bob-a-ROM-DOS]

It was like that when I purchased it 42 years ago and has not changed noticeably since. It was a different time back then and PCB manufacturers came in various flavors and were not always that reliable I suppose. It shouldn't need any special care as long as no one messes with it. Thanks for your querie.

 

[joeblough]

thx for the reply, good to hear it is stable.