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Working Apple 1 Computer Sells for Record $905,000 at Auction
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They should probably go ahead and change the name back to the Thomas Edison Institute like it originally was. Henry Ford was a jerkoff.
Nope.
The AAPL IPO was priced at $22 per share, or adjusted for 56X in splits, about 36 cents per share. Thus AAPL has gone up by today's close by about 262X.
The original price of the Apple I was $666.66, $905k/666.66 is over 1350X, or about a 5X greater increase from basis than AAPL IPO stock. But the auction house probably gets a healthy cut of that.
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Far too many people have far too much money and far too little intelligence.
And far too many people only have the latter.
1. Dig deep hole in the middle of nowhere.
2. Place yourself in hole.
3. Have a friend put the dirt back. If no friend can be found just send me your location.
You're welcome.
As a percentage of total worth, not even close.
But thanks for the ignorance, and the laugh.
And far too many people only have the latter.
Mirror, mirror.
Quite a bit of cash for an Apple 1. Although they have one heck of a piece of computer history now.
Doesn't take much to get you bent out of shape, huh?
Doesn't take much to get you bent out of shape, huh?
More to the point the only interesting thing about the IBM PC is that it was IBM's rather late entry into the personal computer market. Revisionist history tends to forget about the CP/M era that was the de-facto industry standard personal computer platform before IBM, and of which the IBM PC was an evolution (MS DOS being essentially a CP/M clone - and that's being polite). I'm sure it only succeeded because nobody wanted to bet against IBM.
You could also say that the only interesting thing about the Apple 1 is that it was made by Apple before they were famous. I think it was, maybe, the first single-board system that included a video output (most CP/M systems of the time used a serial terminal).
I have a working Bondi iMac that I am willing to part with for only 1% the auction price of the Apple 1. PM me if interested. Free shipping!
What I'd really like to see is the history of these machines and how they ended up being around today. There is probably an interesting story there. It still works.
I guy I visited last week had one of those bright see through plastic iMac G3's. The blue one. I commented on it and he mentioned he just saved it from going to the tip and asked the guy biffing it if he could have it. They were gorgeous computers.
I guy I visited last week had one of those bright see through plastic iMac G3's. The blue one. I commented on it and he mentioned he just saved it from going to the tip and asked the guy biffing it if he could have it. They were gorgeous computers.
MOS 6502 processor running at 1 MHz.
The Retina iMac has a GPU that does 3.5 TFlop.
The 6502 would have done about 0.000 000 000 100 TFlop.
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Buy an iMac now, keep it in working condition for the next 38 years, and see what you can sell it for.
And how can you say it's overpriced when this computer was sold with about 150,000% profit?
That's if you bought at IPO. I bought at close to $3/share when it was down in the '90s and looked like the company could go under.
This is the internet. Shouldnt we all be insisting that they name everything after Tesla? Just cause?
You can buy a modern reproduction of it, the Mimeo 1, or a functionally-identical, but with modern connectors Replica 1.
That said, anyone considering paying nearly a million dollars will be sure to do their homework in making sure that they're getting an original Apple 1, rather than a modern replica.
