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Lisa 1 Sells for $882K

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AlexTheCat123:
This Lisa 1 on Christie's was sitting at about $30K for a while, but it shot up at the last minute and sold for almost a million dollars! I really don't understand why somebody would pay anywhere near that much, but I guess they just really, really wanted a Lisa 1 and had a whole lot of cash to spare.

stepleton:
I can't make heads or tails of it. We don't even know if it runs --- maybe the buyer contacted the auction to find out? Anyway, these machines degrade; are people expecting them to retain value as durably as a piece of fine art?

ried:
Truly an anomaly.

AlexTheCat123:

--- Quote ---Truly an anomaly.
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Definitely! That same auction had an Altair 8800 selling for around $55K, a NeXTcube for $21K, a lot of 9 microcomputers (common stuff like a PET, Apple II, PC XT, and so on) for $47K, and Spacewar punched onto paper tape for $18K! It's almost like a shill bidder was intentionally driving the prices up to absurd levels. I just don't see any other scenario in which this stuff would sell for so much!

AlexTheCat123:

--- Quote ---I can't make heads or tails of it. We don't even know if it runs --- maybe the buyer contacted the auction to find out?
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Given that there weren't any pictures of the insides, I was a bit suspicious that the Twiggies might not even be in there at all! I know we've seen a machine or two like that come up on eBay before.

The box of Twiggies that seem to contain some Apple-internal software is definitely cool. Let's hope it ends up in the hands of someone who realizes the importance of dumping them!

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