Old Apple 1 Up For Auction, Expected To Go For $160,000+ 156
vanstinator was one of several readers to point out that Christie's is holding an auction for one of the original Apple 1 machines, complete with a manual, the original shipping box, and the letter from Steve Jobs to the owner. The invoice says the computer was purchased on December 7th, 1976, with an Apple cassette interface card, for a total price of $741.66. The auction house expects it to sell for over $160,000.
Replica I (Score:5, Interesting)
If you're interested in the Apple I from a retro-computing standpoint, instead of owning a museum piece, you can actually buy a kit [brielcomputers.com] and build a clone.
Re:Steve Jobs, the Satanist (Score:5, Interesting)
The mark of the beast is 616. The monks copying up the bible and translating it assumed that it was the handwritten equivalent of a typo, and that the number should really be 666. And thus, an editorial decision affected millions of people down through the ages who freak out when 666 comes up, eg in their change or as a price for a bunch of items, or a bus route or house number.
Re:First time this is actually appropriate... (Score:3, Interesting)
can you get linux running on 8KB of RAM?
If so, I salute you.
Huh, things improved (Score:3, Interesting)
For that price you can get a Mac Pro today:
One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem”
3GB (3x1GB)
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
One 18x SuperDrive
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Or, using the original numbers, you can get a 32GB iPad 3G.
Or, being one of the guys who built it, you could be worth ~$6,000,000,000.
More auctions (Score:4, Interesting)
There is vastly more nerdy stuff for rich collectors than a mere Apple 1.
Who assembled it? (Score:4, Interesting)
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