First Apple computer to be auctioned

13 Comments on First Apple computer to be auctioned

1. at $500K it’s still an overprice piece of pretencious crap

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2. That’s cool and foolish at the same time.
   Maybe my collection of TRS-80’s will be worth something
   in the next 45 years.

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3. So it’s no better than a painting by a crackhead.

   Man, my ability to price what are supposed to be expensive things is all out of whack thanks to the former vice president’s toothless kid.

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4. Shoulda held on to the old Kaypro… Might be worth a cool $9.95 by now.

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5. I’ve seen Commodore 64s go for 1400 dollars.

   I would not give you 10 pennies for one. Not even 5.

   But I did learn quite a bit of shit from my Dad owning one, and me fucking around with it.

   From there it was Bell tests for binary, hex, and gates.

   And after that career it was TL1.

   That second career was simply because I could do TL1.

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6. And I could do TL1 because I had the DMS books. And I could type strings.

   It sounds gay… but it wasn’t gay. I could type strings and make a lot of money.

   That world probably doesn’t exist anymore.

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7. How come it took white kids from the West to create these things?
   Surely this technology was stolen from Africans in huts & native tribes in the Americas…

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8. Erik, these days logic gates are what whitey uses to keep minorities out of the classroom…

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9. I had a first gen iPod, the hard drive, not solid-state.
   I actually ran with it. It didn’t skip.
   Anyway, it was put away for years.
   Sold it on ebay for $160 bucks in a bidding war.
   I had the original box and all accessories.
   I was pleasantly surprised!

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10. @Erik “And I could do TL1 because I had the DMS books. And I could type strings.

    It sounds gay… but it wasn’t gay. I could type strings and make a lot of money.

    That world probably doesn’t exist anymore.”

    You can still make a shit ton of money coding, it’s almost obscene.

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11. Some what related. For the nerds here that missed the “IT crowd”, see this link…https://youtu.be/TzMCjcVzPcM

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12. Say what you want about early computers like the TRS-80, they were EXCELLENT teachers of logical thought. I had a little 4K one that I had to learn how to write logical strings and learn an understanding of Boolean logic as well as how to address pixels on a screen directly in order to do this derfy thing where a squarish cannon shot a square cannonball at a squarish fortress and tore a squarish channel through it. The output was useless, but that was irrelevant as it taught me lessons about how computers “think” and how you have to address them that are STILL relevant TODAY, that I’ve built an industrial machine programming career on.

    All because I wanted to make pixels flash on and off in time to music.

    See, the stuff kids play with now ARE toys, finished products, dedicated hardware that only plays dedicated software that they get very angry and write nasty things on the Interwebs about if it’s at all glitchy. You don’t learn anything with THAT other than frustration and how to be an interet troll.

    Early systems like THIS mostly didn’t HAVE pre-existing software, or if it DID, required you to tap some code in or play off of insufferably long load time CASSETTE TAPES, so you HAD to learn to code to be able to do ANYTHING with it, and you had no one to yell at but YOURSELF if your output didn’t work.

    Even slightly later than that, when disks became the rage, they still weren’t user friendly. I remember an early database product, dbaseIIIPLUS, that required you to tap long strings of logical operators and formulas into, and did not even have WISYWIG diplay capability (What You See Is What You Get), so YOU COULDN’T EVEN SEE THE SPREADSHEET YOU WERE MAKING UNTIL YOU SENT IT TO YOUR LINE PRINTER.

    All of this taught CAREFUL programming, and also how to interact with the computer directly as DOS level programming always had to have you futz around configuring drivers and such since Windows hadn’t been invented so there was no over-arching OS that handled perhipherals for all the different programs for you.

    Now, you just bring up Office and populate little rectangles someone else already made for you. Very little thinking is involved, even LESS if your company made a template they expect everyone to follow.

    And that’s why the kids despite having mad typing skillz are COMPLETELY useless at most programming.

    They were never FORCED to learn HOW…

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13. Yes, Brother SNS… preach it!!

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