16 Aug
1999
16 Aug
'99
4:43 p.m.
Flame me if you want... But it seemed significant enough to mention.
Should be interesting to see where this one goes price wise. Minimum bid
is $5,000US.
-jim
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16 Aug
16 Aug
5:15 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, James Willing wrote:
Flame me if you want... But it seemed significant
enough to mention.
Should be interesting to see where this one goes price wise. Minimum bid
is $5,000US.
This is the same Apple 1 that was supposedly auctioned off in that much
reported auction a month ago. I wonder what its doing on ebay now?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=148058187
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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5:23 p.m.
At 10:15 PM 8/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
This is the same Apple 1 that was supposedly auctioned
off in that much
reported auction a month ago. I wonder what its doing on ebay now?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=148058187
This guy is too weird. Check out how many simultaneous auctions he has
running (most of it junk). He isn't trying to sell the "prototype Lisa"
again (yet!)
--Chuck
17 Aug
17 Aug
4:44 a.m.
At 10:15 PM 8/16/99 -0700, Sellam wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, James Willing wrote:
He probably staged the auction last month to try and set a high price and now he hopes
that some idiot is stupid enough to pay it.
I just checked the auction, it's up to $5,700. So it looks like someone IS stupid
enough!
Joe
Flame me if you want... But it seemed
significant enough to mention.
Should be interesting to see where this one goes price wise. Minimum bid
is $5,000US.
This is the same Apple 1 that was supposedly auctioned off in that much
reported auction a month ago. I wonder what its doing on ebay now? 
3:45 a.m.
I just checked the auction, it's up to $5,700.
So it looks like
someone IS stupid enough!
Well, considering they don't make 'em anymore, I thing that this "idiot"
(or whoever the "idiot" is that wins it) may end up with a great buy,
and be laughing all the way home from the Post Office.
Just think of its value ten years from now, then twenty. This auction's
price may be "a mere bag of shells".
I think this may be one of the defining moments for us - the "Holy Grail"
is being sold.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
6:41 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, William Donzelli wrote:
Well, considering they don't make 'em anymore,
I thing that this "idiot"
(or whoever the "idiot" is that wins it) may end up with a great buy,
and be laughing all the way home from the Post Office.
Just think of its value ten years from now, then twenty. This auction's
price may be "a mere bag of shells".
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.
I think this may be one of the defining moments for us
- the "Holy Grail"
is being sold.
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.
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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
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