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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: giZmo350 on November 11, 2010, 06:12:25 PM

Title: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: giZmo350 on November 11, 2010, 06:12:25 PM: Seems a little high to me!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1328439/First-Apple-1-sold-Steve-Jobs-sale-150k.html
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: B00tDisk on November 11, 2010, 06:54:06 PM: Hmph. The usual from apple. Overpriced!
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: hardlink on November 11, 2010, 07:15:55 PM: Quote from: gizmo350;590979
Seems a little high to me!

Yes, especially since it does not even include a disk drive. Man, do you know what disks for those things cost? And no USB interface, either!
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: amigasociety on November 11, 2010, 08:27:56 PM: Really cool piece there. Not something I could buy as anything the price of a home I would prefer to buy the home but in computer land, with all the original manuals and such that came with it at the time, rather cool historic piece.

I am ever saying thank-you yo all the crazy ones that brought us computing back in the day. Whether it be Apple, Commodore, Atari, you name it.

tj
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: save2600 on November 11, 2010, 08:35:06 PM: what I'm wondering is how in the heck did this end up in the U.K.?
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: Iggy on November 11, 2010, 08:56:56 PM: Man, that is seriously weird! I remember when these were being marketed. First pre-assembled computer? The board was pre-assembled (during a period when most of the competition sold you an unpopulated bare board), but this thing is far from a complete system. And no OS, which is OK since the cassette interface costs extra (what disk drive?)!
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: actung_bab on November 11, 2010, 09:08:38 PM: id thougbht better use whould be for boat to stop it moving
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: JimS on November 11, 2010, 09:16:16 PM: Yowza! I wish now I'd bought one back in the day. ;-) Back then, there was just one computer store in the entire state, a place about the size of a sandwich shop... But I do remember seeing one of these on display. Wonder how long it will take for my Atari 800 to be worth that much. ;-)
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: Iggy on November 11, 2010, 09:17:15 PM: Quote from: actung_bab;591014
id thougbht better use whould be for boat to stop it moving

Its not heavy enough to be an anchor. Now my old SWTPC SS50 system filled with cement? That would do fine.

Strange that the predecessor to the Apple II would sell for so much when Apple IIs themselves are worth very little. The most expensive (the IIGS, IIc, and IIe) are still trading for far less than a used Amiga.
Probably because of the numbers made and the fact that in comparison the Apple II looks much cruder.
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: tone007 on November 12, 2010, 12:36:51 AM: Quote from: Iggy;591019
Probably because of the numbers made

Genius!
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: amigakid on November 12, 2010, 02:51:11 AM: LOL nice price number the, he must be the devil LOL. For that time that is an astronomical price, man Apple has always been overpriced.
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: B00tDisk on November 12, 2010, 03:02:54 AM: I hear Jobs is going to tell Wozniak it only sold for £50,000 and pay him a cut out of that amount.
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: persia on November 12, 2010, 03:36:35 AM: Sounds like the rrp for the A-Eon X2000...
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: Iggy on November 12, 2010, 03:37:57 AM: Hey, everybody! Keep this to yourself, Woz isn't supposed to know (Jobs sold his computer).
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: coldfish on November 12, 2010, 05:03:21 AM: Quote from: actung_bab;591014
id thougbht better use whould be for boat to stop it moving

Already have a sack full of A4000's for that.
Title: Re: Rare 'Apple-1' sold by Jobs from his parents' garage goes on sale for £150,000
Post by: Iggy on November 12, 2010, 05:47:27 AM: Quote from: tone007;591051
Genius!

Damn, the guy with the Commodore filing cabinet is making fun of me!