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At $666.66 this must have been a diabolic deal!

>>gignic+(OP)
More devilish

>>gignic+(OP)
Not really. The Apple I was discontinued within a year of release, if you saved that money until 1978 then you could get an Apple II that would be supported for almost 20 years give-or-take.

>>bigyab+L2
But very really if you bought it and kept it until now.

>>gignic+(OP)
~$3,800 in 2026 dollars.

>>bigyab+L2
Part of the reason the Apple I is so rare, is that Apple offered an Apple I trade in program. Apple would destroy the boards of Apple Is that were traded in for Apple IIs.

* Not that there was really many to begin with.

>>jagged+y2
Same thing.

>>gignic+(OP)
Including 8K of "RAM memory", brought to you by the DRD Department!

>>bigyab+L2
Even better, what if I had invested that money in Apple stock instead? :)

>>Charle+u3
Why, for $3800, you can now get a brand new Apple computer with a million times the RAM!

>>chococ+36
What was the reasoning behind that?

>>gignic+(OP)
This was because Woz liked repeating digits.

https://youtu.be/pJif4i9NRdI @2:05

>>biofox+D9
Probably to reduce support costs.

I recall my junior high school had only Apple IIs in 1995.

>>gignic+(OP)
It would be a cancellable offense today

>>gignic+N7
I use to muse if I put the money I spent on computer gear back in the day instead into woodworking tools, I'd not only have a bigger, better shop than Norm Abrahm, all of the tools would probably still work.

>>seydor+Zj
From everything I've seen, I doubt it.

>>biofox+D9
It's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you.

Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability.