On October 22 a original, 1 of 50 computers built in Steve Jobs garage in 1976, will be auctioned. This will be at Bohams in New York and is estimated to go for $300,000 to $500,000. Now that is more than scrap value!
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On October 22 a original, 1 of 50 computers built in Steve Jobs garage in 1976, will be auctioned. This will be at Bohams in New York and is estimated to go for $300,000 to $500,000. Now that is more than scrap value!
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Dooooo iiiit!!!
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Link to an article with a pic of what you would get for a Half a Mil
One of Apple's Very First Computers Expected to Fetch $400,000 at Auction
I'm so into scrapping.. When my Steel Toe Boots Wear out, I cut the Steel out of them and recycle the Toe!
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Darn I have number 51.
Google first ask questions later!
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#51 is only good for a measly $100,000. Guess you can't win em all right?Originally Posted by Jonniebrass
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Maybe a stupid question, but what makes it one of the first 50? Were they numbered?
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ScrappinRed - A good question and I don't have a answer. It's my understanding that about 200 Apple I's were built in 1976 and 1977. All but 25 of these were sold by the time the Apple II's came out in late in 1977. Another thing that makes the Apple I's rare, was Apple II buyers were given credit if they turned in their original Apple I's. The company destroyed a lot of these turned in Apple I's. Wheres our resident vintage computer expert?
Last edited by bigburtchino; 10-10-2014 at 09:57 PM.
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She's currently busy getting settled in to her new digs.
Which reminds me I need to update the thread, asking just this question.
Sirscrapalot - On topic..sorta.
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the answer is yes they were numbered...here is an older sale of one
Apple's first computer to be sold at auction - Telegraph
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So they sold them without a casing, monitor, keyboard or powersupply? Was it just a motherboard?
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Brasscatcher - there is a pic in the above link...they made "custom" wooden cases....lol...and yes the EARLY computers were "kit" based computers...ie you have to put it together yourself. For the tech heads. There were a few of them...the Apple 1 just already had the components soldered into the motherboard, so you weren't having to manually add chips etc and THEN hard program them...these were already programmed with the basic things it needed to do.
Remember, computers were in ROOM's a few years before, using large tape drives, punch cards and other things to get it to do stuff. I was 5 when this came out, but I owned a commodore 64 when it came out...hooked up to my TV for a monitor, had the keyboard and basic motherboard in the keyboard housing with a separate floppy drive and later the GASP cassette tape drive.
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