The largest auction site in the United States is certainly a center of sales of all types, including the strangest imaginable. Among them, an object appeared today that more than one collector or fan of Apple computers will want to have in your home. This is a prototype of the Macintosh 128k running drive known as Twiggy appeared at auction for the staggering price of $ 100,000.

For those not distracted entiedan the is the eccentricity of this computer, it is difficult to find a similar one mainly because this model is not never sold with this type of drive. Instead, motivated by the unreliability of the format, the company decided a few months after its release by switching to 3.5-inch disks that store up to 400 kb.



This model is the first Macintosh to market with this brand, just after the Lisa personal computer. It was released under the name of Apple Macintosh in 1984, promoting itself with the recognized trade superbowl based on the book of Orwell directed by Ridley Scott. This computer all-in-one was a big gamble for the company, built by Motorola processor had strong sales for several years. When Apple launched the model of 512 kb that became labeled as the Macintosh 128K.

According to the author of the auction, despite having previously appeared only evidence of this computer had been plates and shells which revealed its existence. This was the first time that this internal model comes out and is put on sale.

The auction includes:

■ The prototype of the Macintosh 128k with Twiggy disk drive 5.25-inch
■ Macintosh Keyboard prototype working (tested in traditional models).
■ Keyboard, mouse and power cord officials running Macintosh 128k.

The computer works, but can not boot. The reason for this is that this model had the operating system on a disk that should be inserted at start, then you could withdraw. As you can imagine, having a copy of the Twiggy disk system would be a rarity even greater. In this way the computer, as seen in the images can not exceed the screen that asks you insert a disc.


The user making the sale is called wozniac with long history and good reputation of the company selling antiques on the block, but so far had been T-shirts, manuals and some peripherals. For the strangeness of this sale was suspected that it was really Steve Wozniak although this possibility is highly unlikely, even if it were not for the detail of the sale and the seller's reputation hesitate publication.

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