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https://www.cultofmac.com/515157/rare-wo...sells-50k/
If you feel foolish for having spent $10,000 for an Apple Lisa-1 computer in 1983, you hopefully kept it.
A working model recently sold for more than $50,000 at auction.
One of Apple’s biggest commercial failures is now one of the most coveted pieces of vintage tech. The steep price, clunky performance, and unreliable Twiggy floppy disks led to poor sales. Apple made improvements and dropped the price on the Lisa-2, but the launch of the Apple MacIntosh pretty much ended Lisa’s life.
Auction Team Breker, which specializes in tech antiques, sold a Lisa-1 for $50,300 at an auction in Cologne, Germany on Nov. 11, according to AppleWorld.Today. It fetched the top price on the day.
While this may seem like a handsome sum, it still doesn’t come close to the value of an Apple 1. Some of few units still in existence have sold for $300,000 to $900,000, depending on condition, serial number and whether the demand at the time is high. Less than 70 are known exits because parts on most of the unsold units (about 500 were made) were recycled and used to build the Apple II.
What makes the Lisa-1 in its original form so rare was Apple’s offer to provide owners with free upgrades. Lisa-1 owners could convert their machines to the improved version, Lisa-2, by swapping out front panels and the Twiggy drives. Apple destroyed the parts and Breker estimates that only 30 to 100 original Lisa-1 machines still exist.
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....but that is no Mona.....Lisa.....
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Damn. And I walked right past one in the trash back in '88. Oh well.
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With inflation, $10,000 in 1983 is about $25,000 in todays money.
The $1000 iPhone X is a bargain!
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I had a LISA for a few years, but not a "twiggy" original. It ran well, but so S L O W
I did have a ProFile HD as well, partitioned so I used it both on the LISA and with a cable swap, on an Apple ///
Those twin twiggy 5.25" floppy drives were a short lived version.
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3d wrote:
With inflation, $10,000 in 1983 is about $25,000 in todays money.
The $1000 iPhone X is a bargain!
Back then though, a skilled user could do the work of multiple employees if the right tools and systems were in place. That makes that $25k seem like a bargain.
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Little Bro was at the mothership in those days, and I got to put two of the original five Lisa prototypes thru their paces before the public ever got to them at any price. There was massive security involved, so the odds of retaining either one were pretty slim... doubtful of getting past even the first door, so didn't bother to think about that, but did think about how freaking revolutionary the tech kit was, and how it was gonna change the world. Not a bad investment.
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There are 2700 Lisa's buried in a landfill in Logan Utah. But I suspect they're the Lisa 2 model, not the original.
https://fossbytes.com/why-2700-apple-lis...-landfill/
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ztirffritz wrote:
[quote=3d]
With inflation, $10,000 in 1983 is about $25,000 in todays money.
The $1000 iPhone X is a bargain!
Back then though, a skilled user could do the work of multiple employees if the right tools and systems were in place. That makes that $25k seem like a bargain.
The original Laserwriter also had a big impact...
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