For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer

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For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer

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Apple 1 for sale. Price estimate: £100,000 - £150,000 ($160,300 - $240,450)

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NY Times article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/1 ... -computer/

Auction listing: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_ ... ID=5370965

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Re: For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer

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Hi,

Sounds like the one that was on eBay a while back.

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Sold for an amazing $213,000!

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/2 ... t-auction/

Wonder what a Nikon QV-1000C would sell for. It's just as rare, if not rarer.. Offers, anyone?

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Apple Lisa 1 on eBay

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Another one. Apple Lisa 1, eBay item 290511644520. 6 bids so far, currently at $25.100. 3 days left.

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Re: For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer

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Hi,

How about a prototype IBM 5150 Personal Computer? You can see one of those front and center on my SOE. It was used in prototyping by this particular IBM prototyper back in the day. It has lots of interesting mods from the stock original PC. I even have the 5151 Expansion Chassis which now houses a prototype tape storage library. I had 5 GB of storage on that PC, which was absolutely unbelievable at the time. How much can I get for *that*?? :)

Also buried on the SOE is an IBM 5110 Portable Computer, which predated the Personal Computer by a decade. It has a Hollerith card reader/punch, a paper tape reader/punch, a 1/4-inch tape drive and a 1.5 MB 8" diskette drive. Still works.

The 5150 PC also has a 1.2 MB 8" diskette drive unit as well as the more familiar 5.25" diskette drive. So, I can take your Hollerith card data and convert it on the 5110 to 8" diskette then move it to the 5150 and put it on 5.25" diskette.

I have a prototype model 81 PS/2 (which was never sold as it had a 486, which was replaced with a Pentium and then sold as the model 95) that has a 5.25" diskette drive on it as well as more modern 3.5" diskette drive. I can then convert that Hollerith card data to 3.5" diskette and then move it to a modern Thinkpad notebook and put it onto a CD, DVD, USB memory key or just email you the file.

At this point, most of that stuff is buried on the SOE but it all still works. I had it all fired up this summer converting programs for a Numeric Control milling machine for a buddy's machine shop. He needed the NC programs, which were on paper tape, converted to a USB keydrive to use on a new Computer Numeric Controlled mill.

That was the reason for putting all that old crap together in the first place - converting NC programs on cards and paper tape to CNC machine files which used 3.5" diskettes at the time - for my dad's machine shop. ;)

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Stan Disbrow wrote:How about a prototype IBM 5150 Personal Computer? .. How much can I get for *that*?? :)
A small fortune? Apparently, there's plenty of silly collectors out there! And it's hard to resist a prototype, whatever it is. Right?

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Hi,

It's pretty easy for me to resist a prototype (that I didn't make myself). They're full of bugs! :P

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The Apple Lisa 1 sold for $15,000. 11 bids from two bidders. Buyer has 0 feedback, which always makes me suspicious.

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Prototype of Apple's first portable Mac

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