OMG! Maybe this will give them ideas as to where to price the next iPhone....
Working Apple-1 retro fossil auctioned off to mystery bidder for $375,000
A rare Apple-1 computer was yesterday sold to an unknown bidder for $350,000, fetching $50,000 more than seller RR Auction first anticipated. fully functional apple-1 computer sold for $375,000 according to boston-based rr auction photo credit: rr auction Click to enlarge The unit included a set of originals: a mod-free …
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 14:11 GMT djstardust
It's there already!
Courtesy of Android Authority:
iPhone XS Max 256GB materials cost $443, phone retails for $1,249
People being blatantly ripped off. you'd be better taking your money and setting fire to it. Would give you far more pleasure than the "stellar" iphone.
Marketing bullshit at it's best.
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 23:32 GMT Ian Joyner
"materials cost $443"
That's just materials. Lots of costs on top of that, like assembling, transportation, wages of many people involved.
I knew this article with nothing to do with current technology would attract the usual anti-Apple irrational criticism and hatred so frequently seen and this proves the point.
"People being blatantly ripped off"
No, you are using dodgy figures. It is also not like you have to pay this. I'm quite happy with my iPhone 7 for the next few years. Apple also have cheaper options.
People say Apple is not innovating. But since all the basic phone capabilities are out there, the only innovations must come at a cost.
Remember the competition sell their phones cheaply because the business model is more based on advertising and selling your data. So you pay in other ways other than initial cost.
"you'd be better taking your money and setting fire to it"
Now that really is silly and shows you don't have much to say.
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 14:36 GMT David Green
>> "Both Steves took care of the soldering already"
This leads me to wonder about how repair work affects the value of "classic" electronics. Even with excellent hand-soldering skills, the quality of the solder joints is going to be inconsistent. Would reflowing the solder joints (as necessary) affect the value of the equipment, since it'd no longer be in original condition? Is this even a concern in the world of collectible electronics?
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 18:48 GMT Version 1.0
If the original soldering was good (and it probably was good although it would have been a Sn-Pb solder in those days) then there should be no issue with the age of the board - poor or dry joints usually show up within a year. I junked my Apple 1 board years ago when I moved to S-100 based systems because I preferred CP/M based assembly language programming and there was a much better variety of options available with S100 than Apple - and my IMSAI and Altair still run fine ... all hand-soldered back in the 70's.
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 23:38 GMT Ian Joyner
Re: If you want a flash-back moment try the RC2014
"I built one recently with my daughter"
I commend you for your educational efforts, but do remember that computing is about far more than building hardware. It really is about end-user experience and software that is independent of hardware.
I hope you enjoyed it - I wish my soldering skills were better, but I hardly ever have to do any these days.
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Thursday 27th September 2018 14:01 GMT TkH11
repairing boards
Repair work may involve replacing components. If you don't repair it, then it doesn't work.
So what's the value of the item unworking and compare that to the value working?
Re doing the soldering is unlikely to devalue the board, replacing the odd passive component isn't either.
But if you replace the original 6502 processor chip, which has a date stamp of 1978 (or whatever year it was), with one dated 2005, then I can see that might have an effect on the value.
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Thursday 27th September 2018 09:45 GMT imanidiot
Re: Flag
Both NASA and the astronauts themselves brought all kinds of crap with them to the moon. Some of the "Lunar Surface flow" stuff never actually ever left the CM but that's just nitpicking. Things like postcards, stamps, flags. Nothing too voluminous or heavy but stuff you can then sell for a premium or give away as "special" PR tat. This was mostly done on the later Apollos (14 and later) because the increasing power of the Saturn and improved orbits/trajectories meant more load capacity for the CM and LM.
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 19:05 GMT Patched Out
You are correct in that there was only one flag deployed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. However, there were several flags flown to the surface of the Moon along with other mementos to be returned to Earth. It must be one of these flags. (This was described in "First Man", an authorized biography of Neil Armstrong which I just finished reading. An excellent read, by the way.)
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Thursday 27th September 2018 08:51 GMT Danny 2
Sodder
Ever wondered why the Yanks pronounce solder as sodder? Apparently they are arguably correct, for once.
solder (n.)
early 14c., soudur, from Old French soldure, soudeure, from souder, originally solder, "to consolidate, close, fasten together, join with solder" (13c.), from Latin solidare "to make solid," from solidus "solid" (see solid (adj.)).
Modern form in English is a re-Latinization from early 15c. The loss of Latin -l- in that position on the way to Old French is regular, as poudre from pulverem, cou from collum, chaud from calidus. The -l- typically is sounded in British English but not in American, according to OED, but Fowler wrote that solder without the "l" was "The only pronunciation I have ever heard, except from the half-educated to whom spelling is a final court of appeal ..." and was baffled by the OED's statement that it was American. Related: Soldered; soldering. The noun is first attested late 14c.
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Friday 28th September 2018 14:14 GMT 8Ace
Re: Jobs
"I don't know. But remember, computing is about software not hardware.
Computing is not about electronics. Electronics are just a fast (very fast) implementation of computing."
What utter shite.
Computing is just one application of electronics, there are many others. Software is basically just switching schedules for transistors. You can have electronics without software, but you can't have software without electronics.
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Saturday 29th September 2018 06:31 GMT Neil Barnes
Re: Jobs
Don't tell that to Babbage, or Lady Ada. They may take a different view.
What might be difficult is implementing software which executes quickly in the absence of electronics, but software can and does exist quite happily in the absence of anything to run it on. For example, checking an algorithm by stepping through it with pencil and paper.
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