$200,000 for a 40 year old Computer board

[jeff of pa]

I can't believe people are So Dumb

I'm not talking about the woman who Discarded it.

I'm talking about the fools that have so much money laying around,
they will pay $200,000.00 for this




[h=1]Mystery woman throws away vintage Apple computer[/h]
An unidentified woman dropped off the desktop computer, one of the original 1976 machines built by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Rob Wayne, at CleanBayArea in April. (As Steve Wozniak told Gizmodo last time we wrote about the Apple-1, they weren’t actually built in a Cupertino garage, as tech legend goes.)

According to CleanBayArea vice president Victor Gichun, the mystery woman was cleaning out her house after her husband died. The backlogged center only recently discovered that she’d nonchalantly surrendered a piece of computing history, and now it’s trying to find her.


Mystery woman throws away vintage Apple computer worth $200,000 - The Washington Post

 

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[kenstein]

I agree, Jeff. I think I have an Apple Performa around here somewhere. I'll take half that for it.

 

[Mike70]

I got an old Borland, with books and everything, I wonder ..............

 

[Sheldon J]

I wonder if my old VIC 20 is worth anything.... ;-)

 

[ARC]

Well if you have a "computer museum"... this would be a "must have"...
Only takes 2 who want it to drive the price to this...
Heck could have been one of the founders who wanted it for display in the lobby of his building.
$200,000 would be like 200 bucks to them.

 

[jeff of pa]

I'll sell the Dell I'm using right now for $5000. at least it is actually internet Capable

 

[Dagger Woods]

$200k.... must be the "Storage Wars" price....

 

[UnderMiner]

I wonder how hard it would be to find some vintage chips and capacitors, solder them to an old board in the same way they look on the example above, and just say it's an original Apple 1. I mean it's not like the thing has to work or anything. You could even toss a little dirt and salt water on it to make it look broken/old and people will still pay 5 or 6 figure sums for it.

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Amazing.
Great names though.
Smithsonian?
Peace ✌

 

[tamrock]

I've horded some of my old computers. The oldest is my 1987 or 88? IBM intel 8088 cpu, floppy drive with a 10 meg hard drive and the Okidata dot matrix printer I used with it in the crawl space under a blanket. Last time I lifted the blanket to look at it, mice had made a nest in that printer. Now that I think about it I need to go review what other treasures are down in that crawl space. It's a frick'n time capsule of me and the years I lived plus the ancestors before me. When I croak, it'll be my King Tuts tomb for someone to discover.