Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 299 Cyber ​​Antique
"Can you open it and have a look?" After hearing Joan's voice, Liang En walked over to look at the old box that didn't match the surrounding environment at all, and then asked.

"No, the lid of this box seems to be nailed. I tried it before, and it can't be opened without tools." As she said that, Joan turned on the flashlight in her hand and shone in through the gaps in the wooden boards.

"However, I saw a little bit of what was inside. Although it was wrapped, it looked like an old-fashioned portable TV in terms of outline, size and shape."

"Then go back and open it again. It's not convenient to carry it if it's opened here." Liang En nodded and said after observing along the gaps in the wooden boards and making sure that there were no guns or other troublesome things inside.

"Now it's settled here. After a while, call the owner of the house to check and sign and we can withdraw. That's right! What are you going to have for dinner?"

More than an hour later, they sat around a table in the living room of their residence and ate takeaway food from an Italian restaurant on the way.They were supposed to come back half an hour ago, but unfortunately there was a traffic jam on the road.

After a sumptuous dinner, several people began to test these electronic products. After all, the price of these electronic products can be said to be a world of difference between usable and unusable.

The test results were quite satisfactory. Except for a problem with the interface between the host computer and the display screen, which can be used after changing, all other computers can operate normally.

"There are ten desktop computers and ten notebooks here, all of which were the latest version two years ago. Except for one of us who took away a total of four notebooks, the other computers can just be donated to the school in the tribe."

After completing the inspection, Liang En quickly arranged the whereabouts of these computers, which are considered to have good performance even now, and this was also discussed by everyone before.

After all, everyone is not the kind of person who cares about every detail, so it is understandable to choose to donate part of the windfall after getting a large sum of money this time.

Of course, another important reason is that they got the computer worth more than 8 US dollars before, so they have enough confidence to donate other trophies.

But in addition to these new computers, there are dozens of very old models, ranging from the early 20s to the 90s.

These computers should be the most difficult to deal with, because they are not so new that they can be used now, but they are not so old that they can be regarded as cultural relics.

If you want to say that there is something special about this pile of things, it is that these computers include almost every generation of Apple's famous products, and putting them together can just show the development process of Apple.

"Put these things away first, let's take a look at the contents of the last box." Facing this pile of electronic waste, everyone has no good way, so Liang En decided to put these things away first, and look at the contents first. Let's talk about that box.

The box was directly nailed, so Liang En and the others had to use a claw hammer to remove the nails, and then opened the lid of the box to take out the contents.

"Could it be that someone threw the electronic waste here?" Fan Meng frowned as something was taken out of the box and unpacked to reveal its original appearance.

Because the things being taken out now do look a bit weird. The pile includes an old-fashioned portable miniature TV with a handle on it, a green circuit board full of resistors and chips, a crude transformer, and a green circuit board directly on the green. The circuit board houses the keypad and a tape reader.

"This should also be a product of Apple." After taking those large items out of the box, Liang En found two tapes with gray plastic casings in a black plastic bag, with a pattern of a colorful apple drawn on them.

"And it should belong to the early products of this Apple company. Before 98, their company's famous Apple logo was not monochrome today, with six colored horizontal bars on it."

"Big gold mine, we dug a big gold mine this time." Just as Liang En finished speaking, Pierce, who had been rummaging through the box before, carefully took out a few pieces of yellowed paper from the bottom of the box and said. "This box contains an Apple-1 computer."

"Apple-1 computer?" Liang En, who was not very familiar with electronic products, scratched his hair and asked. "It sounds like the name is Apple's first computer."

Liang En has never used Apple's products much, whether in his previous life or this life, but he also knows from some relatives and friends who use products that Apple likes to use numbers to name its products.

"That's right, it's Apple's first computer." Pierce carefully put those yellow and brittle manuals, advertisement sheets and circuit diagrams into the folder prepared in advance, and then excitedly introduced it.

According to Pierce, Apple released the first computer in the company's history, the Apple-1976, in July 7, the same year Apple was founded in the garage of Jobs' parents.

Wozniak handmade all 200 Apple-1 computers Apple made, selling for $666.66 each
And the next year, in 1977, Apple released an upgraded version of its desktop computer, the Apple-II. The Apple-II became the first commercially successful personal computer on the market, selling between 500 and 600 million units in just over a decade.

The computer that Liang En and the others found from the box was one of the first batch of 1976 computers that Jobs and his partner Wozniak built together in the garage in 50. It was the first witness to the glory of this company.

"No wonder this gadget looks like a handmade workshop, but it turned out to be handmade." Liang En looked at this humble computer with a surprised expression. "But how did you know it was the first batch?"

"Because this manual not only has the signatures of the two founders Wozniak and Jobs, but also the product number, so this is easy to determine." Pierce said with a smile.

"Although this thing looks simple, it actually represents the beginning of an era. So even if it is only a few decades old, it can be regarded as an important memorial."

At this time, Liang En got two cards, one bronze and one black. It seems that the whole computer is just like what Pierce said was the first batch of computers produced by Apple, so he was able to get these two cards. cards.

"This thing should be very valuable." At this time, Fan Meng suddenly asked a somewhat unpleasant question.

"Let me think - these things are perfectly preserved now, which is a very good plus point." When asked, Pierce's side as a businessman was immediately activated.

"At least except for the instruction manual, the whole computer does not have many traces of rust, and all the parts of the whole machine are original, and there is no post-modification component."

"Now the last thing is to figure out whether this computer can function normally, and if it can function normally, then this thing will be able to sell for a very high price."

(End of this chapter)