Comment by colejohnson66
4 years 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?)
My 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.
A 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.
I 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.
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> This is the underpinning of modern capitalism.
How so?
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Probably a good portion of all Apple I ever made ended up in landfills.
IIRC most were traded into to Apple for a discount on an Apple II and Apple just destroyed them.
Sounds 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.
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Jobs soldered?
He 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.
Little-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.