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Old Apple 1 Up For Auction, Expected To Go For $160,000+

Posted by Soulskill on from the doesn't-run-flash dept.

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.

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  1. Replica I by Hatta · · Score: 4, 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 and build a clone.

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  2. Re:Steve Jobs, the Satanist by jo_ham · · Score: 4, 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.

  3. Re:First time this is actually appropriate... by Dayofswords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can you get linux running on 8KB of RAM?

    If so, I salute you.

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  4. Huh, things improved by dazedNconfuzed · · Score: 2, 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.

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  5. More auctions by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check out the other auctions Christie's is having in SALE 7882. Very rare books, computer manuals, patent for the ENIAC, first edition paper by Babbage, and an Enigma machine (lot 59). Plus other antique books and maps, etc.

    There is vastly more nerdy stuff for rich collectors than a mere Apple 1.

  6. Who assembled it? by RevWaldo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any chance Wozniak and/or Jobs were amongst the people who put it together? Or did they have people by then?

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