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Hand-built original Apple-1 fetches $400,000 at US auction

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    Greg
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    Posting this mainly because I'm fascinated at how low the price was. Obviously that's partly because the internet has destroyed my frame of reference - the price is more than most houses and...

    Posting this mainly because I'm fascinated at how low the price was. Obviously that's partly because the internet has destroyed my frame of reference - the price is more than most houses and certainly more money than I've ever seen in one place in my life - but such a seminal piece of computing history going for orders of magnitude less than a particularly-hyped NFT, or indeed a mint boxed copy of Super Mario Bros, seems like an aberration to me.

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    1. mtset
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      Probably because this is an actual sale and not wash trading or money laundering.

      such a seminal piece of computing history going for orders of magnitude less than a particularly-hyped NFT,

      Probably because this is an actual sale and not wash trading or money laundering.

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