The value of things is totally relative, and they simply cost what someone is willing to pay. There are art collectors who pay millions of Euros for paintings that I, honestly, give them to me and I would not even hang in my living room.
It has been put up for sale for 1,5 million dollars one of the first Apple I's built by Steve Jobs and his partner Wozniak in the famous garage of the Jobs family home. Now because we have already seen the image and we know what it is like, otherwise, if we find it in the garbage container on the corner, we leave our garbage bag on top and leave so richly….
As reported IGN, one of the first Apple I's ever made has just been put up for sale on eBay. Its inventors did it directly, Steve Jobs y Steve Wozniak at the home of Jobs's parents. Because of that, it is a collector's item priced at $ 1,5 million. Almost nothing.
It is also explained in the article that this Apple 1 computer is one of six that were made with an original Byte Shop KOA wooden box and also with an unmodified NTI motherboard. Another thing that makes this Apple 1 so special is the fact that it is still in working condition. operation, which is quite rare for computers of this time.
It was one of the first 50 units made of the Apple I
It reminds me a lot of my first computer, the Commodore 64.
This Apple I It is one of the first 50 units that were built by Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak. Only the video connectors and keyboard have been replaced, but that doesn't make this collector's item any less interesting.
The current owner of the machine claims on eBay that he got it from 1978 as part of an exchange for a new Apple II. The provenance of this unit is recorded in the Official Register of Apple-1, as the second owner. No cheating or cardboard.
The current owner says that he acquired it in early 1978 as part of an exchange for a newer Apple II at his computer store where he sold Apple IIs in Montreal, Canada, until Apple was established in that country to sell its products directly. .
Apple I was the first device announced by Apple in 1976. The computer went on sale for $ 666,66 at that time. 25 years later, its value is 1,5 million dollars. If someone pays for them, of course.