35 year old Apple Computer auctioned for over $200k

So, here's a question. If you were to drop $200,000 on a computer in this day and age, what kind of performance would you expect from it? You'd probably expect it to blaze away everything in its path, right? Run the most intensive games at over 100fps, multi-task like nothing you've ever seen before. Right? Right? WRONG. The computer we're talking about here is Apple's first ever model, created some 35 years ago, which was recently bought by a Turin University at an auction for, yes, that's right, $200,000.

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This was the first computer of its kind, and there were only 200 others like it ever made. It couldn't do too much more than basic mathematical computing and text output (like printing "Hello World"), but hey, that's technology for you in the 70s. The university clearly has a lot of money to spend on stuff that offers no more than novelty value. This Apple I computer didn't have as much as an external casing. It runs a minuscule 4KB of memory, a basic plastic Rockwell CPU, no power supply, and not even a monitor! Talk about primitive! But perhaps its a matter of personal pride to own one of the first computers every built. That's all we could think of to justify the ridiculous amount of money spent on procuring it!

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Via: KitGuru