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> Rare, Hand-built Apple-1 So, every single Apple I still in existence? IIRC, only a few hundred were made, and Jobs and Woz hand soldered every single board.
by colejohnson66 5y ago
> Rare, Hand-built Apple-1
So, every single Apple I still in existence? IIRC, only a few hundred were made, and Jobs and Woz hand soldered every single board.
As for "rare", that's very true. The Apple II had a trade in program where they'd take your Apple I and destroy(?) it? (reuse it for parts?)
- codetrotter 5y agoMy dream is to one day go to a garage sale and to find an original Apple Computer 1 for like $5. Not that that would ever happen ofc. But it’s fun to have unrealistic dreams too sometimes.
- elzbardico 5y agoProbably a good portion of all Apple I ever made ended up in landfills.
- yitchelle 5y agoSounds like a good premise for a treasure hunt of sorts. Remember the video of a group hunting a stash of ET Atari video games cartridges, that was an interesting video.
- acomjean 5y agoI think you mean the rumored Atari cartridges in the landfill documentary. That was pretty fun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:_Game_Over https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:_Game_Over Sometimes when I’ve lost something and am looking for it, I think “what if it’s simply not here?”. Then I think, “it still likely exists, where is it?”
- salamandersauce 5y agoIIRC most were traded into to Apple for a discount on an Apple II and Apple just destroyed them.
- xattt 5y agoA lot of people wish to stumble across something valuable without the original owner knowing the actual value of it. This is the underpinning of modern capitalism.
- zohch 5y ago> This is the underpinning of modern capitalism. How so?
- 300bps 5y agoI view capitalism differently. I picture a neighborhood of elderly people who aren't able to shovel their driveways and walkways when it snows. And an industrious young person nearby who shovels their driveways and walkways for them for a modest fee. He does such a good job that word of his good service spreads and he wants to expand by buying a truck with a plow. But he doesn't have the money so he goes to a bank and borrows the money. He's able to expand his enterprise dramatically. He's happy. His customers are happy. The bank is happy. Society is better off, isn't it? There are of course problems with capitalism which is where regulation comes in. But it isn't rotten to the core.
- fortran77 5y agoJobs soldered?
- colejohnson66 5y agoHe didn't design it; Woz did all of that. Jobs was just the marketing face. But when the order from Byte Shop for ~50 came, they obtained parts with a net-30 payment. To be able to pay that, I could swear I read that Jobs helped assemble them so they could finish in two weeks.
- cgh 5y agoLittle-known fact: Jobs was a serious electronics hobbyist throughout high school and his early 20s. It’s safe to say he did a lot of soldering.