Original Apple 1 Computer, 1976 (Lot 20)

http://www.breker.com/english/index.htm

by weinzierl • 14 years ago

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modernerd• 14 years ago

The starting bid is €70,000. The estimate is €120,000 to €200,000. The buyer's premium is 22.5% and the sales tax is 19% (26.78% on top of the final fee in total). The last one sold at Sotheby's New York in June 2012 for $374,500.

Good luck with your bidding, everyone.

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/13714882_original-apple-...

weinzierl• 14 years ago

Quote from the link in the parent post: "The current vendor has offered to set up, install and put it into operation anywhere in the world in exchange of his expenses."

The link also has a series of relatively detailed images.

RobAley• 14 years ago

You can tell it's a genuine Apple, the screen has rounded corners...

dsuriano• 14 years ago

I'm somewhat glad I never had to use cassette tapes for storage.

larrys2• 14 years ago

On the old teletypes if you made a recording of the modem chatter and played it back into the modem coupler (300 baud) it printing out the entire conversation. (I did this.)

jgrahamc• 14 years ago

Why? They only look slow and difficult looking backwards.

If you'd lived through the use of them you'd know that it was incredibly cool to be able to save multiple programs on a small, portable medium and just find the program you are looking for by fast forwarding to the right position on the tape based on the counter.

Also, tape was incredibly easy to get because it was the same stuff you used to record music. It was not hard to obtain; any music shop or even stationer had it.

And it turns out it was very robust: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-old...

tluyben24• 14 years ago

Yep; tape was the cheapest, easiest thing there was. You didn't have to buy any extra stuff. Like sd cards are now for music/pics/vids/computers. It was slow but I had fun.

Waiting for things also makes it more special/valuable; instant gratification is definitely not what it's cracked up to be in most cases; buying games is definitely one of those things. When I buy some instant games for my Android devices is one of them; they appear instantly, you try them and discard mostly. When you have to wait 15 min and have a good chance your computer will crash during the ordeal so you'll have to wait another 15 min you'll feel it has more value for your money for some reason. You would play games which suck for weeks/months because they take effort to load and get going. Not sure if that's different now with Linux; when you cannot get something going because you have to build it and ./configure; make; make install has errors; if, after a week of messing around, you get it going, you'll bloody play/use it, no matter what it turns out to be.

inoop• 14 years ago

Also, you can broadcast programs over normal FM radio and have people record it on their cassette players.

larrys2• 14 years ago

"stationer" - place to buy office supplies before Staples/OfficeMax/OfficeDepot.

And who would every think back then that one day you would able to buy supplies for computers in the same place you had prescriptions filled?

I remember very distinctly how cool it was to work on a CRT at the computer center (they had ditched the teletypes a few years before). You could sit there for hours on end and still have a good time with a green cursor on a VT100 with no windowing. And in the next room was the mainframes which you could see from practically any seat (Wharton Computer Center, Vance Hall)

weisser2• 14 years ago

That belongs in a museum! - Indiana Jones

In all seriousness don't you think this should be in the Smithsonian?

tluyben24• 14 years ago

They are not in computer museums?

weisser2• 14 years ago

I'm sure they are but the Smithsonian museums in DC are some of the most widely visited in the country and there is no charge for admission. I do not believe they have one of these there and it seems like something they should have one on display.

thechut• 14 years ago

Where did somebody find a box of 20 of there? Does anybody how many Apple 1's there were made?

geuis• 14 years ago

It's not a box of 20, it's listed as lot 20.

Original Apple 1 Computer, 1976 (Lot 20)

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