"In 2013, an Apple 1 sold at Christie's Auction for $390,000. Several Apple 1's have also appeared on eBay over the years. The highest successful bid on eBay for an Apple 1 is $43,000, the highest value for any vintage Apple Computer."
I have a couple of 20 year old laptops. One is an Apple and the other is an IBM. Do they have any dollar value, perhaps as a collector's item?
"In 2013, an Apple 1 sold at Christie's Auction for $390,000. Several Apple 1's have also appeared on eBay over the years. The highest successful bid on eBay for an Apple 1 is $43,000, the highest value for any vintage Apple Computer."
I have a couple of 20 year old laptops. One is an Apple and the other is an IBM. Do they have any dollar value, perhaps as a collector's item?
"In 2013, an Apple 1 sold at Christie's Auction for $390,000. Several Apple 1's have also appeared on eBay over the years. The highest successful bid on eBay for an Apple 1 is $43,000, the highest value for any vintage Apple Computer."
I have a couple of 20 year old laptops. One is an Apple and the other is an IBM. Do they have any dollar value, perhaps as a collector's item?
A laptop from 1994? Sounds like a contradiction in terms.
You could always donate it to the computer museum, and maybe even get a charitable receipt for a few bucks.
It's in Brantford. Check it out. http://www.pcmuseum.ca/
A laptop from 1994? Sounds like a contradiction in terms.
You could always donate it to the computer museum, and maybe even get a charitable receipt for a few bucks.
It's in Brantford. Check it out. http://www.pcmuseum.ca/
I used to have an old XT laptop. It was blue and white plastic and I managed to load Windows 3.0 on it although it took some work on memory allocation in the config.sys to get it to boot up.
Maybe if I keep it for another 10 years, it will be a classic and have the same monetary value as a classic car or Wayne Gretsky rookie card or Superman comic book.
The first laptop I saw live and in person was somewhere between 1982-84, on an airplane. One passenger sitting on the other side of the aisle pulled an attache case, maybe 6in thick laying down, with a suitcase handle, from under the seat in front of him, opened it to reveal a screen and a keyboard, and he did a minute or so of computing before closing it and putting it back. Some spreadsheet stuff as best I can recall. If true, it probably would've been Lotus 1-2-3. I know my age is showing. I remember thinking to myself "I've heard about those computers that you can carry around." Clearly this guy wanted people to see what he had.
I have a cousin that has to have the latest gadget, back in the early 80s he had an Apple computer that cost about $6000-7000. That was about the price of a Toyota Corolla at the time. We all know now that this computer did very little compared to what a lower end computer can do today.
The computer that was sold at Christie's Auction for $390,000. was the very first Apple computer. For an old computer to be worth anything it would have to have been historically significant in some way or belonged to someone famous. Maybe if you have a brand new never used Apple McIntosh computer in its original box and packaging it would be worth a few bucks, but no where near $390,000.
