24 Aug
2023
24 Aug
'23
6:29 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:51 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I don't mean to be argumentative. I totally get it why the apple I is
historic and valuable, but the proportion is lost. My only point, the
proportion. The fact that today Apple is worth $1Tn does not make the
Apple 1 more historic.
Apple is the only company of that early micro/home-computer era to still
exist today. I think Cromemco still exists in Europe, but in an extremely
vertical market.
So there's that.
I agree the aApple I stands out among SBC computers
sold in 1976, but there
is nothing that amazing that could not be found elsewhere in an SBC,
otherwise it would have sold more.
The Jolt was the first 6502, how much is that worth?
About 3 orders of magnitude less than the Apple 1, because the Jolt was
effectively a deadend, and thus, relatively few people even know of its
existence. Side note: it's one of the few computers I was never able to
get my hands on, even though I became personal friends with its inventor :)
It's obvious that the Apple 1 has the value it does not so much for its
technology but for what it represents, and that's all that matters.
Sellam