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At $666.66 this must have been a diabolic deal!
by gignico 8mo ago
At $666.66 this must have been a diabolic deal!
- jagged-chisel 8mo agoMore devilish
- esafak 8mo agoSame thing.
- bigyabai 8mo agoNot really. The Apple I was discontinued within a year of release, if you saved that money until 1978 then you could get an Apple II that would be supported for almost 20 years give-or-take.
- tracerbulletx 8mo agoBut very really if you bought it and kept it until now.
- chocochunks 8mo agoPart of the reason the Apple I is so rare, is that Apple offered an Apple I trade in program. Apple would destroy the boards of Apple Is that were traded in for Apple IIs. * Not that there was really many to begin with.
- biofox 8mo agoWhat was the reasoning behind that?
- paulryanrogers 8mo agoProbably to reduce support costs. I recall my junior high school had only Apple IIs in 1995.
- Dwedit 8mo agoIt's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you. Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability.
- gignico 8mo agoEven better, what if I had invested that money in Apple stock instead? :)
- whartung 8mo agoI use to muse if I put the money I spent on computer gear back in the day instead into woodworking tools, I'd not only have a bigger, better shop than Norm Abrahm, all of the tools would probably still work.
- CharlesW 8mo ago~$3,800 in 2026 dollars.
- chungy 8mo agoWhy, for $3800, you can now get a brand new Apple computer with a million times the RAM!
- pixelpoet 8mo agoIncluding 8K of "RAM memory", brought to you by the DRD Department!
- al_borland 8mo agoThis was because Woz liked repeating digits. https://youtu.be/pJif4i9NRdI https://youtu.be/pJif4i9NRdI @2:05
- seydor 8mo agoIt would be a cancellable offense today
- Andrex 8mo agoFrom everything I've seen, I doubt it.