Nobody wants to buy this Apple 1 motherboard

While Apple 1 computers are considered by and large to be valuable collectables, an Apple 1 motherboard failed to sell at a recent vintage tech sale.

Made in 1976, the motherboard is believed to be just one of 50 left in the world. At a similar sale last year, one drew the price of $365,000; in 2013, another Apple 1 received a bid of $905,000. 

This past Monday, the opening bid for the Apple 1 motherboard was $300,000, but for the first time, no one in attendance placed a bid on it.

At the same event, a 79-year-old TV also failed to sell. The 1936 Baird television, which does not work and delivers an enormous electrical of 5000 volts, was originally forecasted to draw bids between $20,000 and $30,000; however, just like the Apple 1 computer, it failed to draw any bids.

One piece of vintage technology that did sell at the event was the only surviving processor designed by Seymour Cray, who is considered by most to have designed the world’s first commercial supercomputers. At the time his company went bankrupt in 1995, he was working on the Cray-4 supercomputer processor. The company’s financial woes put the project on hold, and the following year Cray passed away in a traffic accident. The processor, which includes the serial number “001” on it, was originally expected to fetch somewhere between $50,000 and $80,000 — it wound up selling for $37,500. 

Via BBC