Apple 1 launch price $600. Googles ai said 1k investment at 1980's IPO worth 2.5m today. So if you invested 600 that is 1.5m. It would have sat idle 1976 to 1980.<p>So board #0 beat the stock price but only just. And I am comparing board 0 to any old apple 1.
I need that "RUB OUT" key on my keyboard
The ZX81 had that too, at least the UK ones did.<p>The keyboard itself, er, takes some getting used to. But they are a little cheaper.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81.png" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81...</a>
If I was a billionaire I hope I’d buy artifacts like this and donate them for posterity. This is a really cool piece of history.
I’ve got an Apple II I’ll take 500k ;)
Sick, now loan it to Computer History Museum so I can have a look
WTF is a "computer-rated" capacitor?
High capacitance, low voltage. Computers were somewhat unusual at the time in terms of requiring a lot of current at 5 Volts. The line frequency power supplies were inefficient enough even under optimal circumstances. I've seen some giant transformers from minicomputers of the day. And those huge blue capacitors the size of beer cans.<p>Apple II was one of the early PC's that used a switching power supply, and it wasn't particularly reliable. I worked at an Apple repair facility, and we replaced a lot of them. But our most common repairs were due to the huge number of chip sockets and low quality gold fingers on the disk controller board edge connector. We were a government agency (county run facility serving a bunch of semi rural school districts) and didn't charge a bench fee. If we could fix it on the spot by just pressing all of the chips back into their sockets, the repair was free and we didn't even log it.
At the time, it was a type of capacitor targeting the specific voltage ranges and tolerances to be useful for a computer.<p>It's a thing that still shows up in a web search (but is far less meaningful).
The actual term is "computer grade electrolytic capacitor," designed for long-term service in high current linear power supplies. You can still get them, even though few computers use linear supplies these days: <a href="https://www.mouser.com/c/passive-components/capacitors/aluminum-electrolytic-capacitors/aluminum-electrolytic-capacitors-screw-terminal/?product=Computer%20Grade%20Electrolytic%20Capacitors&srsltid=AfmBOoqN01uc4NPCtrUzkxGfIo6nKm9KAQCFSbOuF3G1ClLObzNrewhe" rel="nofollow">https://www.mouser.com/c/passive-components/capacitors/alumi...</a>
$2.75m??? How does Apple get away with these prices?
Someone needs to create a Fallout 4 module that has the vibe of “Citizen Kane”.