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Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide price 300 to 500 thousand pou

Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide price 300 to 500 thousand pounds! Apparently these are extremely rare; none have appeared in auction for 35 years! http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=10&intObjectID=5370960&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...

KoZeN 16y ago
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5370965&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal... I'm surprised this hadn't had more attention here! APPLE-1 -- Personal Computer. An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976
- asmithmd1 16y ago
  Wow! a the Apple-1 is estimated to go for £100,000 - £150,000 I wonder if there are any artifacts from todays companies that we should be grabbing up
  - asmithmd1 16y ago
    Now I see why - it comes with the optional cassette interface and BASIC on a tape :) Seriously it is an exceptional artifact: original invoice (Salesperson: STEVEN) and a typed note from Steven Jobs explaining how to hook-up a TV and keyboard: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lotfinderimages/D53709/d5370965 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lot...
  - KoZeN 16y ago
    I can imagine one of the 1st gen iphones fetching a few quid down the line.
bl4k 16y ago
This entire collection is eclectic and interesting. There are the Turing papers, the Enigma, ENIAC related papers, the old Apple I, some original Warhol and Matisse (for what seems like a low price), original documents from Captain Cook on his travels and a rare first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth.
zitterbewegung 16y ago
I noticed that if you keep on looking through the lot they have watson's and crick's original paper on DNA http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5370986&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...
ghalfacree 16y ago
There's a fundraising drive trying to get together the money so Bletchley Park, the museum dedicated to the work of Turing and the other codebreakers at Station X during the war, can buy the offprints and keep them for public display. More info: http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/ http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/

KoZeN 16y ago

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5370965&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal... I'm surprised this hadn't had more attention here! APPLE-1 -- Personal Computer. An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976

asmithmd1 16y ago
Wow! a the Apple-1 is estimated to go for £100,000 - £150,000 I wonder if there are any artifacts from todays companies that we should be grabbing up
- asmithmd1 16y ago
  Now I see why - it comes with the optional cassette interface and BASIC on a tape :) Seriously it is an exceptional artifact: original invoice (Salesperson: STEVEN) and a typed note from Steven Jobs explaining how to hook-up a TV and keyboard: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lotfinderimages/D53709/d5370965 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lot...
- KoZeN 16y ago
  I can imagine one of the 1st gen iphones fetching a few quid down the line.

bl4k 16y ago

This entire collection is eclectic and interesting. There are the Turing papers, the Enigma, ENIAC related papers, the old Apple I, some original Warhol and Matisse (for what seems like a low price), original documents from Captain Cook on his travels and a rare first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth.

zitterbewegung 16y ago

I noticed that if you keep on looking through the lot they have watson's and crick's original paper on DNA http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5370986&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...

ghalfacree 16y ago

There's a fundraising drive trying to get together the money so Bletchley Park, the museum dedicated to the work of Turing and the other codebreakers at Station X during the war, can buy the offprints and keep them for public display. More info: http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/ http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/