17 Aug
1999
17 Aug
'99
3:13 p.m.
You're assuming this will go at the current price,
which is below the
reserve, which I am sure is no less than $40-50K. I know the guy selling,
and he won't take anything less than $40K for it, last I spoke to him.
Yes, the price will shoot up in the last moments of the auction, but I
think even a final five figure price will be a bargain.
It's not the "Holy Grail". Its not the
1st Apple 1 as was advertised
during the much publicized auction. The actual 1st Apple 1, as given to
Liza Loop by The Woz himself, still resides in the Silicon Valley.
As a class of machines, I would call it the "Holy Grail". Certainly there
have been machines that have been rarer, had a bigger impact on people
and engineering, or effected business in some way, but so far, the Apple 1s
take the prize for prestige.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org