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Old 03-21-2018, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by rld-tv01 View Post
I find it interesting the first apple computer would sell for $800K in 2016 while early mechanical televisions sell in the $3K-$15K range.
As someone who works in the old computers hobby, when it comes to Apple products there is a term called the Reality Distortion Field.
To them the Apple I is this magical PCB with a bunch of IC's that was created by a mythical man (implying Woz was somehow not at all responsible for the fact he did design, prototype and test build the computer) who created the GUI and the biggest computer company in the world and this is a national treasure symbolizing the humble beginning of a technological world leader and the few remaining original units are priceless.
These things...uh...they look like some retro steampunk thing. Wasn't that in an episode of Doctor Who?
It's an Each to their Own thing. The international acceptence is that they are just stupid.

I could see it sell for $38K if it was professionally restored. It has the ability to become a really nice and extremely rare museum piece. Right now however I really could not see it going over $10000.

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