I have often heard it said

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I'll bet my left plum he gets what he's asking for it.

The Lisa was a turd of a machine, but the circumstances of the release and the hush hush way Apple tried to smooth over the whole fiasco, real genuine Lisa 1's with no alterations would be extremely rare.  Numbers matching on the box helps inflate the price as well, and the Lisa was an *extremely* expensive machine back when they were new.

Couple years one of the 200 Apple 1's went up on a Christie's auction, and it sold for £133,250.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197844/Apple_1_goes_for_213K_in_Christie_s_auction

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Always liked the purported dialog that went on between Jobs and Gates after they both saw (and later "borrowed) from Xerox and used it hands on, the GUI interface on the PARC/Xerox Star concept.  Jobs seemed to figure he was being ripped off by MS, when the plain fact is both of them were thieves, lol.

Jobs was pissed off when Gates brought out Windows and got into a pissing match with Gates about it, the reported conversation was:

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Steve Jobs: What is this? This is like doing business with a praying mantis. You get seduced, and then eaten alive afterwards?

Bill Gates: Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late.
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Pirates of Silicon Valley is a great movie to watch if you enjoy a Hollywood spin on the early days of computing.  Can find it on YouTube in its entirety at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWyLOKjlAKA

We can all agree the Amiga was, and still is - the best original, old school GUI interface, bar none.  Back in those days, it was truly revolutionary.  Why did it fail?  Progress, mainly - but mangled business management by C= sure didn't help.

I still remember seeing Doom on a PC right when it came out - this was just shortly after I had blown like $1700 on an accelerator card, video card, and SCSI card for my A4000.  I actually got those Amiga components rather than buy myself a newer and more reliable car, I was still a teenager then and that was a whole hell of a lot of money.  I knew the writing was on the wall right then and there :/