The $100,000.00 Apple MacIntosh

[DigitalBuddha]

A deal at only a $100,000 clams, man.

Before the iPad, iPhone, iPod, and other ?i? devices, Apple made personal computers (with the caveat they still make them today, of course).  It may seem like a long time ago that the first Apple computers appeared on the market, but it was really only in the late 1970s early 1980s.  They were strikingly different from anything that had come before and, with the introduction of the Macintosh computer, they completely distinguished themselves from the competition.

Who doesn?t remember the iconic 1984 commercial, introducing the Mac?  With the message that this new computer would destroy the staid complacency of the drab IBM-controlled computer industry (and its users), the world immediately stood up and paid attention.

With any computer innovation there are many iterations on the design and early prototypes before the designers and manufacturers arrive at an actual finished product and components.  The early iterations of the product reveal a lot about the company?s future plans, which is what we find with today?s remarkable listing, a Prototype Macintosh 128k / Apple Mac, with 5.25″ Twiggy Disk Drive:



1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OYecfV3ubP8

Grab it here - http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEYOND-RARE-PROTOTYPE-MACINTOSH-128k-APPLE-MAC-5-25-TWIGGY-DISK-DRIVE-/160781780426

[meekon5]

I do believe I have one of the slighter newer ones (still need disks for the operating system) at home.

[DigitalBuddha]

I do believe I have one of the slighter newer ones (still need disks for the operating system) at home.

A website that "warehouses" legacy software might have a copy of the operating system for the Mac. Or maybe these dudes - http://www.computerhistory.org/