If I’ve learned anything, it’s that technology is cyclical. I predict the M3 MacBook Air will use this chip design.
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Rare First Batch Apple-1 to Fetch Over $250,000 at Auction
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I believe he appears on Ars as a commenter sometimes. I think your impression is spot on. He regaularly gets downvoted to oblivion.
His keyboard layout though was interesting and I believe was even an option in Windows at some point.
John C. Dvorak has always been a troll; however, these days he is an alt-right MAGA conspiracy theorist ranting against immigrants, globalists, Democrats, etc. His podcast is basically a combination of Fox News and Infowars.
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If its anything like sales of old macs on ebay, it will either arrive broken because of weak brittle plastic or stop working after a few times booting it up. Its going to be sad that so many old electronics will simply break over time simply because the materials used to make them wear out naturally. A few dozen years from now pretty much all the older macs that have not been preserved already will be inoperable relics of a distant time. They should open source the old os versions to preserve them instead of trying to keep these brittle old bad solder having devices to run that old software on.
The company who once sent a delegation to a British computer conference wearing T shirts emblazoned with “Wang Cares”.…
Maybe someone can explain. I thought the first Apple-1 computers were built out of Job’s garage, but the address on the manual says 770 Welch Rd, Palo Alto.
When I searched that address, it shows Stanford Medicine Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Next MacBook Air with wooden case and CRT confirmed!
And that's even more dumb.
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Of the first 10, about 37. When I get time, I will try to print out a few more. Do you want one?
Hahaha... I have always thought that anyone with an Apple 1 has a piece of history.I'd bid on it but I already have a shelf full of my other rare Apple-1s. So I'll skip this one and let some other collector get it this time.
Jack Dorsey’s first tweet NFT went for $2.9m. $250k for a rare Apple-1 is quite a better investment, relatively speaking.
May have been a different building back then. The address seems to be their official business location, but not the physical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971889
Incorrect.
$666.66 in 1976 dollars adjusts to $3368.50 in 2022 - still almost 75 times the initial investment.
The Dvorak keyboard layout has nothing to do with John C. Dvorak.
That’s not how you calculate the return on an investment. Otherwise, most savings accounts would currently be advertising negative interest…
Not to mention that even if you’d kept that $666 in your mattress since 1976 it would still buy you a dozen Raspberry Pis, each of which is a couple of orders of magnitude more powerful than an early Apple Electronics prices have undergone massive deflation over the last 40 years, so applying general inflation measures to specific commodities which you know have bucked the trend is questionable - c.f. using retail price inflation to plan a future house purchase.
Anyway, the definition of the “basket of goods” used to calculate retail price inflation has changed drastically over the years and now includes things that didn’t exist in 1976. Neither does it factor in things like median wages, household size, availability of credit etc. that would affect “affordability“ so using it over more than a few years is something I’d take with a pinch of salt.
I've used Apple products since the original "1984" macintosh. So long in fact that I've never thought much about the origins of the company's name. Looking at the owners manual for this first Mac and seeing the drawing of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree about to be struck by an Apple due to gravity made me smile.
Yet another rare Apple-1 computer is up for auction, and this one already has a bid of over $250,000. The Apple-1 was the first Apple product created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak when Apple Computer was founded, and there are few left in existence.
Apple-1 models that come up for auction often fetch high prices because of their rarity, and this particular Apple-1 up for sale is number 7 on the registry with a Steve Jobs handwritten serial number. It is a first batch machine, and according to the auction website, it is the only first batch Apple-1 that has gone up for auction in many years and it is the first Apple-1 that has an authenticated serial number handwritten by Jobs.
Daniel Kottke, who was one of the first employees to work at Apple, has verified that it is in working order. It comes with a power supply and other period-appropriate components that include a Sanyo VM-4509 monitor and a Datanetics keyboard. It is also being sold with a modern cassette interface, power supply, connecting cords, and a reproduction of the original operation manual signed by Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
The auction site is also selling a 1993 Apple MacTV, which was Apple's first effort at creating a TV-computer hybrid, and a Steve Jobs name badge, Versace shirt, and leather wallet.
The Apple-1 auction is set to end on Saturday, May 21, so there are still two weeks for additional collectors to enter bids.
Article Link: Rare First Batch Apple-1 to Fetch Over $250,000 at Auction