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Attention Trekkies: Roddenberry’s Mac on auction block

"In what may just be a perfect storm of technology geek gadget lust, an auction house in Southern California is preparing to auction off the first Apple Macintosh Plus ever made–a computer that was owned by “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry. The event promises to bring together two of the most famously devoted fan bases– Apple buyers and Trekkies.

Profiles in History, an auctioneer of Hollywood memorabilia, will offer the aging Mac at an auction scheduled for Oct. 8-9. (For those keeping score at home, the device bears the serial number F4200NUM0001.)

The Macintosh Plus was launched in 1986 and featured a whopping 1 megabyte of RAM (today’s comparable desktop computers come loaded with a base 1 gigabyte of RAM — a 1,000 times more). It was the third model in the Mac line and cost $2,600, according to Wikipedia. The very first Mac Plus to roll off an Apple assembly line was presented to Roddenberry as a gift. He died in 1991.

The auction house said It has an estimated sale price of $800-$1200."

Comments

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

Too bad the hard drive has almost certainly been wiped. Original script notes, anyone? :-)

[wolflahti.livejournal.com]

$800 to 1200? Are they in for a surprise.

A guitar once touched by Eric Clapton sold in excess (and I do mean excess) of $400,000.

And people say they don't believe in magic.