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Old Apple 1 Up For Auction, Expected To Go For $160,000+
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.
According to a show I saw on the History Channel, it was actually code for the name of the current Roman emperor (so as to get past the Roman censors). And that it changed a couple of times to slightly different numbers. The original author's point was actually a scathing commentary on any form of centralized government or empire. Which makes logical sense as well for someone under arrest for their beliefs - typical rebellious manifesto type writing. But somehow that got lost after The First Council of Nicaea and the alterations that they enforced.
They never changed it. If you read the bible it references 616 for the mark of the beast. I have no idea where the 666 ever came from.
Actually, both numbers are in the same passage in versions of the bible from the same period. It's 616 in the earliest versions in greek, but 666 in some latin versions. This actually makes sense as historians believe it was a numerological code used to identify the emperor and since his name had different characters in each language it adds up differently.
I can't believe an atheist is gonna have to correct you: "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666" (Rev. 13:16-18)
As for TFA it just shows the crazy prices fanbois will pay for "their" product's history. I wouldn't be surprised if someone could get the same for one of the first Amiga machines or even the first C64. Fanbois have crazy loyalty even when it makes NO sense for them. Just look at how many stayed loyal to Apple when the Pepsi guy was pushing crap and running it into the ground. I bet you'd see just as crazy a price for a sealed copy of Windows 1 with a personal letter from Bill Gates. Nothing remarkable there.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
And there's another clone using a similar approach (of emulating the video section with a microcontroller,) and a 100% trace-for-trace replica (read: except for the cloner's signature hiding in the board, you can't tell that it's a clone at all) out there.
(There's also the Obtronix replica, which is 100% chip-for-chip, but not trace-for-trace, identical. It's no longer in production, though.)
Actually, in the case of the Apple-1, you have to hit Reset after you turn it on, and then you get dumped into the Monitor.
Then your options are to hand-type BASIC in, or to load it from cassette (if you have the ACI or a replica thereof, which this one does.)
probably because 6-6-6 was a number associated with the Goddess Aphrodite, particularly in her erotic phase.
3 was associated with the Goddess for a long, long time. Any triple iteration of that number was the core, utmost and deepest expression of that phase of the Goddess.
3-3-3 is the ultimate Virgin or Maiden aspect; 9-9-9 was that of the Crone or Dark Mother.
6-6-6 was the Motherly aspect in all its lushness, including sexuality.
Another smear job by horny, uptight monks.
I would imagine that Jobs was probably out hustling, so that would be his lower chance. However, the letter would most likely have been typed and signed by him.
My semi-educated guess.
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