Posted on Nov 10, 2021
An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400,000
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The first Apple-1 computers were sold for $666.66 in 1976. Forty-five years later, a still-functioning one has sold for $400,000.
John Moran Auctioneers in Monrovia, Calif., auctioned it off on Tuesday, one of 200 Apple-1 computers that were designed, built and tested by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, with help from Patty Jobs and Daniel Kottke.
"What we have with the Apple-1 is sort of like the holy grail of vintage computer collecting," says Corey Cohen, an Apple and technology historian.
The computer auctioned is known as the "Chaffey College" Apple-1 because its original owner was a professor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. He ended up selling the computer to a student in 1977 so that he could buy an Apple-II computer.
The first Apple-1 computers were sold for $666.66 in 1976. Forty-five years later, a still-functioning one has sold for $400,000.
John Moran Auctioneers in Monrovia, Calif., auctioned it off on Tuesday, one of 200 Apple-1 computers that were designed, built and tested by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, with help from Patty Jobs and Daniel Kottke.
"What we have with the Apple-1 is sort of like the holy grail of vintage computer collecting," says Corey Cohen, an Apple and technology historian.
The computer auctioned is known as the "Chaffey College" Apple-1 because its original owner was a professor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. He ended up selling the computer to a student in 1977 so that he could buy an Apple-II computer.
An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400,000
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SrA John Monette
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - It's neat that the keyboard opens up to get to the boards.
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I still have an old one--with a personal laser printer and they still work.
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I love computer history. I've never seen an Apple I in person, but I learned to program on an Apple II. The Apple I was the first computer that was somewhat packaged for the end user. Before that, everything had been piecemeal and a real shot in the dark as far as quality. Many of the first commercial personal systems were based on the same chip, the 6502, but the implementations were all different and nothing was compatible. We've come a long way since those days.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Maj (Join to see) My Problem is that I am Computer History, As a Retired Navy Spook I Learned My Trade on Ancient Equipment. Mod 28 Equipment but reported to My First Command to work on a PDP-11/70 State of Art in it's day, 2 Million Dollars and another 2 Million to get it to work right for Us but when Your CINCPACFLT and DIA, What is Money? I would attend a Lecture by RADM Grace Hopper, I would be Aide de Camp to Capt Margie Turner. My NECs by the Time I retired would be Telecommunications Management, Automated Data Processing and Tactical Intelligence Networks. I just wanted to work on Radios and Antennas!
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Maj (Join to see)
PDP-11 is a legend. UNIX was written on a PDP-7 and soon ported to the PDP-11. And I would have loved to meet Admiral Hopper. She's a legend.
I'm not that old, but I do present much of computing history from first hand knowledge. My apprenticeship students ask how I know so much about Linux and Windows and I tell them it's because I've lived it all. I've run Linux since Patrick Volkerding first built Slackware from Linus's Linux kernel. I've built a CPU from ANDs, ORs, and NORs.
My last TDY (TAD for all you Navy weirdos!) as a reservist was to a missile warning radar site. Inside the racks of the purpose-built, Harvard architecture computing were typewriter typed sheets of paper from about two months after my birth. The contractors and I were talking shop about this being Harvard architecture and not Von Neumann and I noticed their eyes kept moving from my eyes to my rank and back. They were a little confused as to why a major could talk deep computing architecture with them until I explained that my background and education was Computer Engineering. We had a good time after that.
I love this stuff.
I'm not that old, but I do present much of computing history from first hand knowledge. My apprenticeship students ask how I know so much about Linux and Windows and I tell them it's because I've lived it all. I've run Linux since Patrick Volkerding first built Slackware from Linus's Linux kernel. I've built a CPU from ANDs, ORs, and NORs.
My last TDY (TAD for all you Navy weirdos!) as a reservist was to a missile warning radar site. Inside the racks of the purpose-built, Harvard architecture computing were typewriter typed sheets of paper from about two months after my birth. The contractors and I were talking shop about this being Harvard architecture and not Von Neumann and I noticed their eyes kept moving from my eyes to my rank and back. They were a little confused as to why a major could talk deep computing architecture with them until I explained that my background and education was Computer Engineering. We had a good time after that.
I love this stuff.
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