One of the few remaining fully functional Apple-1 motherboards by Wozniac is being auctioned - Polidicks

[quote] [video=youtube;JsWLwQG2vpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWLwQG2vpk[/video] [B]A piece of electronical history from back when Apple was still a toddler is about to get auctioned out by Bonhams in New York. It's expected to get sold for several hundreds of thousands US dollars. [/B]Bonhams will hold an auction during the 22nd of October this year, with the theme "The history of science". One of the main attractions is an extremely rare, still fully functioning, Apple-1 motherboard, made from scratch by Steve Wozniak in Steve Job's parent's garage back in 1976. Only 200 of the motherboards were ever made. This motherboard in particular is assumed to be part of the initial delivery of 50 to "Paul Terrells The Byte Shop", one of the world's first PC-resellers. Out of the 200, there's only about 60 machines left in the world today. And there are only 15 left still functioning. Due to this, it's expected to get sold for between 300 000 to 500 000 USD. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/19443-apple-i-moderkort-av-wozniak-kan-saljas-for-flera-miljoner-kronor-pa-auktion[/url]

psh, more overpriced apple stuff? $300,000? bah!

So before you load anything onto it, programs literally have to be typed in with raw hex code? Dayum. I knew the first apple computer was old school but I had no idea.

amazing to think how far we have come today with computers. thank you moores law

FYI: Just because Woz signs it does not mean it's worth more. He signs everything you put in front of him because it it makes his signature almost worthless, if not tacky [i]and depreciates the value of the item signed[/i]. This man is brilliant.

[QUOTE=pentium;46186535]FYI: Just because Woz signs it does not mean it's worth more. He signs everything you put in front of him because it it makes his signature almost worthless, if not tacky [i]and depreciates the value of the item signed[/i]. This man is brilliant.[/QUOTE] He actually made the motherboard?

Man, I love the sound of that keyboard.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;46186851]He actually made the motherboard?[/QUOTE] I didn't say that and without googling it I'll assume no.

[QUOTE=pentium;46187910]I didn't say that and without googling it I'll assume no.[/QUOTE] You should probably Google more often then.

[QUOTE=pentium;46187910]I didn't say that and without googling it I'll assume no.[/QUOTE] well, the article said he made it from scratch. and apple didnt exactly have more than a few employees.

It belongs in a museum! [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DU7XwLd.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=SA Spyder;46187975]You should probably Google more often then.[/QUOTE] I don't get why you are all getting so pissed off. I said that woz signs everything so a signed Apple I isn't any more valueable. Actually, looking at the wiki and photos of the board he did design the schematic and layout but I can assure you he sent them off to a PCB manufacturer somewhere in the valley. It may of been a garage operation but I doubt Woz was setup to do PCB masking and silkscreening but now I'm just grasping straws because you pulled something out of your ass to make me look stupid.

[QUOTE=pentium;46188325]I don't get why you are all getting so pissed off. I said that woz signs everything so a signed Apple I isn't any more valueable. Actually, looking at the wiki and photos of the board he did design the schematic and layout but I can assure you he sent them off to a PCB manufacturer somewhere in the valley. It may of been a garage operation but I doubt Woz was setup to do PCB masking and silkscreening but now I'm just grasping straws because you pulled something out of your ass to make me look stupid.[/QUOTE] Because it's irritating when people shit words out without doing their research. Like you keep doing. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I[/url] He hand-built it. It's on the fucking Wiki. You could have just looked it up instead of wasting time trying to save face. He hand-built the first few then eventually sent them off to a manufacturer to get them made faster.

[QUOTE=pentium;46188325]I don't get why you are all getting so pissed off. I said that woz signs everything so a signed Apple I isn't any more valueable. Actually, looking at the wiki and photos of the board he did design the schematic and layout but I can assure you he sent them off to a PCB manufacturer somewhere in the valley. It may of been a garage operation but I doubt Woz was setup to do PCB masking and silkscreening but now I'm just grasping straws because you pulled something out of your ass to make me look stupid.[/QUOTE] all those affordable, widely spread PCB manufacturers around for a garage operation to work with back in the mid 70s

You know what's even more ironic here? The board isn't even autographed by woz in the firstplace. The article has no mention of it.

As a collector, this is an absolute Gem right here. I'd love to have the original Apple 1 if it didn't require selling my children, everything I own, and my soul for the glory of Satan.

[QUOTE=pentium;46188325]I don't get why you are all getting so pissed off. I said that woz signs everything so a signed Apple I isn't any more valueable. Actually, looking at the wiki and photos of the board he did design the schematic and layout but I can assure you he sent them off to a PCB manufacturer somewhere in the valley. It may of been a garage operation but I doubt Woz was setup to do PCB masking and silkscreening but now I'm just grasping straws because you pulled something out of your ass to make me look stupid.[/QUOTE] IIRC the PCBs were bought with the money they were going to make from the sale then they had to weld every single component onto the board by hand.

[QUOTE=SA Spyder;46188449]He hand-built it. It's on the fucking Wiki. You could have just looked it up instead of wasting time trying to save face. He hand-built the first few then eventually sent them off to a manufacturer to get them made faster.[/QUOTE] I don't know what point pentium is actually trying to make, but if the board in the OP is from The Byte Shop, then it's one of the manufactured ones, not the hand-built. [quote]The computers were manufactured at a place in Santa Clara. They made the PC boards, they stuffed the parts in, they wave-soldered it. Steve would drive down and then drive them back to his garage. We did use the garage at his place—we had a lab bench there and we would plug in the PC boards of the Apple Is and test them on a keyboard. If they worked, put them in a box. If they didn't work, we'd fix them and put them in a box. Eventually Steve would drive the boxes down to the Byte Shop in Mountain View or wherever and get paid, in cash. We had the parts on credit and we got paid in cash. That was the only way we could do the Apple Is.[/quote] [url]http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html[/url]