![]() ![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Or, if you prefer, an iCon.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. There will never be a replacement for Steve. “I would love to do something in the store that commemorates Steve in some way,” says Knuth, a leader in Chicago’s community of Apple experts. He and his Lapin crew, all Apple loyalists, had a rough go of it at work Thursday. Knuth isn’t sure how he’d react to any offers to buy items from his treasure trove. “There is already active collecting interest in early Apple items first-generation Apple computers have sold for tens of thousands of dollars.” So Jobs’ passing, he predicts, is unlikely to have any long-term effect on that market. “Everyone has to die eventually, and real collectors are generally not affected much one way or the other when famous people pass,” Slater says. Will prices on the original Macintosh computers now go up? Tom Slater, Heritage’s director of Americana auctions, doesn’t think so. ![]() That’s a nice chunk of change for a tech dinosaur, but keep in mind the computer sold new for about $2,000, or $4,100 in 2010 dollars. Knuth’s brother sold a 1984 Macintosh 128K for $1,300. But he does know what some items were worth before Jobs’ passing: “People already value the original 128K Mac and that has a pretty decent market value” as a collectible, he says. Knuth, who owns an ancient Apple 2E and an 1985 128K Macintosh - upgraded to a then-astonishing 1MB of computing power - hasn’t been fielding any offers for his collection just yet. Besides repairing and selling Apples, Knuth also collects them for many years a vintage spread of Apple machines graced the display window of his Evanston, Illinois store. “There were huge, huge numbers of the machines sold,” especially after Jobs returned to the company in 1997, says Roger Knuth, owner of Lapin Systems, an Apple specialty store. Meanwhile, finding old Apple computers and peripherals that have a sort of Smithsonian cache is hard because, well, Apple sold so many. Its value today? “$3 million to $4 million, or maybe more as of yesterday,” Halperin says, “if only because more art collectors now understand the guy really had taste, and was always ahead of his time.” “He was selling many of his favorite possessions at the time because he found them a distraction and wanted to hone his focus on Apple by simplifying the rest of his life,” says Halperin, who purchased it from Jobs in 1985 for $70,000. ![]() James Halperin, co-chairman of Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, owns with his wife a Maxfield Parrish painting previously owned by Jobs himself, and that was reputed to be one of Jobs’ favorites. Then there are Jobs collectibles of a different sort. (In this case, it’s assumed the winning bidder truly wants the Playboy to read the article.) A Playboy magazine featuring an extensive interview with Jobs, from February 1985, was up to $71 in a mild sort of bidding frenzy. Yet as nostalgia and fondness for the high-tech guru builds over the next few weeks, that could well change. It was as though Apple groupies, already disappointed with unveiling of the iPhone 4S, decided to cocoon with their MacBooks and pine for the good old days in private - avoiding their usual impulse to spend every spare dime on All Things Apple. Bidders cast a few scattered offers in the $12 range for the hats - maybe one or two per eBay vendor - and that was it. Nor was there barely any love for newly-minted “Steve Jobs R.I.P.” baseball caps, with the old-school Apple silhouette logo utilizing a profile of Jobs. Likewise for an Apple III System PFS Report software package, looking pristine and offered for $90. No bids on an Apple III external floppy disc drive, “buy it now” priced to sell at $160. Elsewhere on eBay, the bidding activity was so silent you could hear a hard drive chug fro 50 feet away. ![]()
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