First Apple computer model makes record sale at UK auction
bill190
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Found the following in the news this morning...
First Apple computer model makes record sale at UK auction
At a Christie's auction sale on Tuesday, one of the fifty remaining Apple-1 computers was sold for a record value of 133,250 pounds (around 157,390 euros). It was the first computer designed by Steve Jobs and cost 666,66 US dollars back in 1976...
Full story...
http://www.france24.com/en/20101124-apple-1-auction-christies-computer-record-steve-jobs-uk-technology
First Apple computer model makes record sale at UK auction
At a Christie's auction sale on Tuesday, one of the fifty remaining Apple-1 computers was sold for a record value of 133,250 pounds (around 157,390 euros). It was the first computer designed by Steve Jobs and cost 666,66 US dollars back in 1976...
Full story...
http://www.france24.com/en/20101124-apple-1-auction-christies-computer-record-steve-jobs-uk-technology
Comments
I think if Jobs would have used Particle board instead of Marine grade plywood for the Apple1 he could of got the cost down to $66.66!
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(Just poking fun at you Apple Fans)
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I like seeing this kind of stuff.
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Thanks for sharing it!!!
666 = The number of the beast, or at least what a lot of uneducated people believe is 'the number'. Also, Steve has always understood marketing, and 666.66 is a rather 'noticeable' number, and much more memorable than 647.59(to take one example)
Incidentally, story is that they never sold more than about 50 of these machines, but many, many more 'Apple I' has been sold on eBay the last decade...
(Most of the machines sold on eBay are reproductions, using new PCBs and ICs salvaged from other computers)