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Apple 1 computer for sale.
Perhaps the best condition, best documented Apple 1 in existence.Any Apple 1 is rare but this unit has impeccable provenance and is so clean…it literally may be the best surviving Apple 1.
Provenance:
Included in this sale are the following items to provide complete history and provenance for this unit:o The original invoice for the sale, dated December 7, 1976. The sales person, Steven, is presumed to be Steve Jobs.
o A letter, typed on plain notebook paper and signed by Steven Jobs. Though undated, the letter refers to sending the buyer a dealer application in January or February, 1977.
o The original packaging in which the computer shipped, with a return address of Steve Jobs’ parents address at the time.
o Photographs of every owner of this unit. The original owner was photographed holding the computer, the next owner did the same and the current owner took his picture with both the system and with Steve Wozniak
(btw, When Steve Wozniak saw this unit he told me that the first batches of Apple 1’s used a brand of chip they later replaced because they blew out easily. He said those chips were on this unit, which is probably why the unit didn’t boot in the mid-80s.)
Yawn. Just another bobble to gather dust. $50,000 could be used in so many better ways.
#1,
Yeah, like behaving like one of those rich white young guys who like to pretend they’re ghetto like 50Cent and blew it all on Crystal Champagne and customized Nike shoes.
This is geek treasure. Period.
It belongs in a museum!
It belongs in a museum! – Indy
I’ve been looking for a working Apple IIe with 2 x 3 1/2″ disk drives. Anyone? (I really need it – all my spreadsheets are in AppleWorks!)
It’s a good investment at 50 grand. I bet it goes for a lot more.
#3, there is one in a museum…the Science Museum in London. I saw it a few weeks ago. It’s even older than this one. And it’s got a wooden case with the keyboard. I think it was one of the first prototypes built by Steve Wozniak.
fpp2002:
I’m the guy selling the Apple 1 on eBay. Wozniak told me he still has the original wirewrapped Apple 1 but he doesn’t know what he’ll do with it. I suppose he’s held onto it so long, it will just be a part of his estate when he dies.
As for the one in the museum in London, if it is older than mine it would only be by a few months. My unit sold December 7, 1976 and Apple was founded April 1, 1976. The first batch of Apple 1s – 35 of them – was sold just prior to the founding of the company. At best, the one in London is nine months older than mine.
Does the one in London have the original box with Jobs’ parents as the return address? Does it have a letter from Jobs? No? I thought not…inferior product! lol
You could get plenty of modded XBoxes for that price…
Hey! It DOESN’T BOOT!
Oh. yea. Let me be the first to put out $50,000 for a BRICK!
BTW,
I have a WORKING Apple II+ in my basement, with original drive, all the boxes, and monitor.
I’ll let MINE go for $5000.
I’m just waiting for a sucker as well.
#9. Ha!
I have an original one-owner, functioning Apple II with a recordable NTSC video output modification that I’ll sell for merely $25,000…
No matter what the story is we know this:
pedro is retarded.
He is the product of two morons who bred and created an idiot spawn that should have been killed at birth.
#8 I’m not debating the value of your Apple I. I was just pointing out it’s a valuable piece of history, so much so that they put it in a museum. The one I saw was much like yours, except with a bunch of hand installed bypass capacitors and jumper wires, hence why I deduced it was one of the first prototypes on a circuit board, not a wire-wrapped one. And the box looked exactly like one of the earliest Wozniak built boxes I’ve seen in pictures.
Isn’t the “Original Apple” mounted on a Plaque labelled “Our Founder” at Apple Headquarters ?
#14 – I didn’t think you were debating the value; I was kidding.
I think what you were looking at is the reason I stated how clean my Apple 1 is. Most of them look like what you saw, with chips soldered in and wire tied off by hobbyists adding sound generators and teletype connectors and etc. to see what they could make their computer do.
I don’t think the guy that owned this Apple 1 ever did anything with it. His kids added a keyboard port in the mid-80s trying to get it to boot. Otherwise I think it just sat in the box.
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I hope you’ll find some mac-apple-fan iDiot willing to plunk much more $$$ for this piece of broken old heap than your asking price.
I’d love to see it happen 😀
Good luck with your sale.
So is this one of those things that go up in value if it is restored?
If only I had an extra $50,000 sitting around!