What to do with a $200,000+ Vintage Computer?
A computer befitting of a museum which recently sold at auction for $213,000 was brought back to life at a event at the Polytechnic University in Torino.
$213,000 Apple 1 being programmed vi $2000 Mac Book Pro
The owner, Mark Bogle, President of the clothing company BasicNet, did not want this Apple 1 to sit idle. instead, infront of an audience of hundred, the Apple 1 was checked with an oscilloscope and a program was fed to it by none other then a Mac Book Pro. Its an amazing feat really, considering its a 35 year old motherboard. One can only imagine the crowds reaction if one of the power filtering caps decided to fail upon boot up. Read more here (all in Italian but Google translate works fine)
