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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 07 2020, @11:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the grab-mom's-credit-card dept.

One for the super rich fanbois: Ultra-rare functional Apple-1 computer goes on auction:

Deep-pocketed fans of historical computing gear, take note: a fully functional Apple-1 computer is going under the hammer, with a guide price of $300,000.

The sale, which is currently live, is being run by the Boston-based RR Auction. The lot consists of the computer, which dates back to 1976, as well as a handful of compatible peripherals from the period including a keyboard, monitor and cassette interface.

Jobs and Wozniak produced the Apple-1 in two distinct batches: the first used the MOS 6502 microprocessors, while the second used a white ceramic Synertek C6502 CPU, and landed with a few cosmetic differences, with the capacitors coming in an all-yellow cladding.

The latter is rarer. Much rarer.

Known as the "NTI model" due to a marking on the logic board, it's believed that only two examples still exist. And this is the model that RR Auction has under the hammer.


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  • (Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:13PM

    Depends on what you mean by "Valuable". The entry price for an IMSAI 8080 these days is bit north of $1000 and can go up from there depending on what boards and accessories you have to go with is. I'll happily trade you my 02/1984 production 128k Macintosh for you IMSAI -- they have about the same street value.

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