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Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record
hypnosec writes "What is believed to be one of the six working Apple-1 computers has fetched a whopping $671,400 for its current owner at an auction in Germany. The Apple-1 was built by Steve Wozniak back in 1976 in the garage of Steve Jobs' parents. The model sold at auction is either from the first lot of 50 systems ordered by Paul Terrell, owner of the Byte Shop chain of stores, or part of the next lot of 150 systems the duo built to sell to friends and vendors. The retail price for the Apple-1 at the time was $666.66."
A sucker !!
I'd buy it, if only for a chance to start harassing The Woz for tech support.
It is indeed a piece of modern history, it would be good on display in a museum of the 20th century (along a few other pioneering machines).
For that much money, the purchaser could have gotten their hands on a whole truckload of IMSAI 8080s with working 8" drives and had enough left over for a Curta!
mark of the jobs
$666.66... The Biblical Apple was from the tree of knowledge. The Apple's salesman was snake, and the users were deceived. Steve Jobs aspired to be devilishly clever in marketing. In Faustian style, his life was cut short ahead of its time... Oh what stories that would be told, if only this silicon could talk.
1976 was already the middle of the computer age.
Nice try, English, but you won't be getting us Amish on that Lucifer's Calculator thing. We'll be laughing in Heaven while you're all burning in Hell, and by burning I mean being boiled alive in a vast bowl of hot grits for all Eternity.
is apple -1 is the best?????????
manik
Inflation after qualitative easings. :-)
I wonder how much an iPhone 1 will be worth in 40-50 years... I suspect they made more of those than the Apple 1 though.
It's been obsolete for decades, numbnuts.
The $666 of those days is worth about $666,666 today, so the value of the Apple 1 actually reduced a little...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 on Saturday at an auction in Germany, including all fees and taxes, said Uwe Breker, the German auctioneer.
That surpassed the $640,000 record for an Apple-1, set last November at a sale at the same auction house in Cologne, Germany, Auction Team Breker. The fall 2012 sale was a sharp rise from the previous record price for an Apple-1 of $374,500, set in June 2012 at Sothebyâ(TM)s in New York.
- I thought 640K was enough for everybody, apparently not until zee Germans get here.
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some irrational exuberance in the prices, for a machine that can do very little and originally sold for $666 (about $2,700 in current dollars).
- isn't that funny, how the official inflation (666 becomes 2700) is so far off the actual bubbles forming in various asset classes, that reflect the actual rate of inflation (666 becomes 641K) and almost none the wiser.
You can't handle the truth.
So the Apple Computer is THE Apple.
Jobs is the snake.
Woz is God.
The Tower of Babble story is obviously the story about the ancient language of Assembly that people used to build so much of the software stack, which angered the God and then he split the language into many.
The Great Flood and the Noah's Arc is probably an RMS related story.
Makes sense. Now we have men that are men, women that are men and also the FBI agents. The only question remains where is Eve in all of this?
You can't handle the truth.
Or, in 1976 dollars, about $666.66 :-p
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(yes in reality it is more like $150K, but where's the fun in that?)
--- Mercutio was right.
Certainly a deeply religious man such as yourself would know how to recognize cult behavior. You have your cult, they have theirs. The only difference is that they don't call yours as wrong, even though you say that of theirs.
- isn't that funny, how the official inflation (666 becomes 2700) is so far off the actual bubbles forming in various asset classes, that reflect the actual rate of inflation (666 becomes 641K) and almost none the wiser
The $641k number is not, in any meaningful way, a result of inflation. The product did not gain value due to the loss of value of the currency, it gained value because of its own diminishing supply and its associated historic value. The difference between its price in 1976 dollars ($666.66) and the value of that much money today ($2,700) is inflationary; you could describe it accurately as an inflationary difference of roughly four-fold. However the remaining difference between the $2,700 of today's dollars and the auction price ($641k) - I'll do the math for you since you failed math - is roughly $638k. That $638k is not driven by inflation. If it were driven by inflation then everything that sold in 1976 would be worth almost 1,000 times its 1976 price - and anyone with a car from the 1970s can tell you that is simply not the case.
But of course you want to sell this as inflation as it is part of your religious mantra. You lie to people repeatedly like this to further your church's agenda, which is to get people to hand over what little power and resources they have to those who already hold the vast majority of the world's power and resources. You want to produce more power for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.
back in 1976 at the Stanford Linear Acceleration I thought the Steves would take all the fun out of building a computer if you buy one already made. I was wrong.
It's always cool hearing about something like this fetching such a high price. The original Apple computer is somewhat of a holy grail among those of us who like these sort of things.
However, the knowledge that there are so few known to exist, the knowledge that most of those are accounted for, and the knowledge that the odds of one of these turning up in a thrift store, donated by some clueless mom who has no idea what it is, priced by some clueless worker who has no idea what it is, and passed up by other clueless shoppers who think that the people doing their pricing must be passing around some good weed to think that this old bare circuit board apparently from some broken Mac would be priced at $15 to $20, are pretty much zero, makes my inner Jawa sad. ;)
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$640K should be enough for anybody.
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Back when I was pressing my nose against the glass of The Byte Shop (San Mateo was it? Buggered if I can remember, I lived in Redwood City and it was nearby) wishing I could afford one of those nifty Apple ]['s, I saw an Apple I in the shop, under glass, listed for a cool $1 Mill. It was a board, with components. Not terribly impressive, but the ][ had only been out for a few months iirc. I don't think he ever really wanted to sell it.
I went to work for Apple shortly after, got one of their loan-to-own units with a floppy disk and VisiCalc. Wasn't much, but damme, I was empowered.
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Anyone for Super Star Trek?
http://www.callapple.org/soft/ap1/games.html
Just because.
-- Jimtown Kelly
PC owners were saved from satanic influence by Intel's wise decision to clock Pentium IIIs at 667mhz.
Did Woz got some share out of it?