Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Can you open it and take a look?" After hearing Jeanne's voice, Liang En walked over and looked 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've tried it before and it can't be opened without tools." As she spoke, Jeanne turned on the flashlight in her hand and shined it through the gap in the board.

"But I saw a little bit of what was inside. Although the thing was wrapped, from the outline, size and appearance, it looked like an old portable TV."

"Then go back and open it again. It will be inconvenient to transport it if you open it here." Liang En nodded and said after observing along the cracks in the wooden boards and making sure that there were no guns or other troublesome things inside.

"Now that it's settled here, I'll call the landlord to inspect it and sign it and we can move out. By the way! What do you plan to have for dinner?"

More than an hour later, they were eating take-out food from an Italian restaurant on the road around the table in the living room of their residence. They were supposed to come back half an hour ago, but unfortunately they encountered a traffic jam on the road.

After a sumptuous dinner, several people began to test these electronic products. After all, the price difference between whether these electronic products can work and not work can be said to be huge.

The test results are quite satisfactory. Except for the interface between the desktop computer host and the display screen, which can be used by just replacing it, all other computers can run normally.

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

After completing the inspection, Liang En quickly arranged the whereabouts of these computers, which had good performance even now, and this was what everyone had discussed before.

After all, we are not the kind of people who care about everything, so it is understandable that we choose to donate part of it after receiving a large amount of windfall.

Of course, another important reason is that they previously obtained the computer worth more than 80,000 US dollars, so they were confident enough to donate the other trophies.

But in addition to these new computers, there are dozens of very old computers, ranging from the early 1990s to the 2000s.

These computers are probably the most difficult to deal with because they are not new enough to be used today, but they are not old enough to be considered artifacts either.

If there is anything special about this pile of things, it is that these computers include almost every generation of Apple's famous products, and when put together they can just show the development history of Apple.

"Let's put these things away first. Let's take a look at the contents of the last box." Facing this pile of electronic waste, no one had any good ideas, so Liang En decided to put these things away first and look at them first. Let’s look at that box.

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

"Is this who dumped electronic waste here?" Fan Meng frowned as items were taken out of the box and unpacked to reveal their original appearance.

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

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

"And it should be an early product of Apple. Before 1998, their company's famous Apple logo was not the monochrome one it is today. It had six colorful horizontal bars."

"Big gold mine, we dug a big gold mine this time." As soon as Liang En finished speaking, Pierce, who had been rummaging in 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. "The name sounds like it's Apple's first computer."

Liang En had never used Apple products in his previous life or in this life, but he also knew from some relatives and friends who used the products that Apple liked to name its products with numbers.

"That's right, it was Apple's first computer." Pierce carefully put the yellow and brittle instructions, advertising leaflets and circuit diagrams into the prepared folder, and then introduced it excitedly.

According to Pierce, Apple released the Apple-1, the first computer in the company's history, in July 1976, the same year Apple was founded in the garage of Jobs' parents.

Wozniak hand-made all 200 Apple-1 computers produced by Apple, each selling for $666.66

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 5 and 6 million units over a decade.

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

"No wonder this thing looks like it's made by a handmade workshop. It turns out it's really handmade." Liang En looked at this crude computer with a surprised expression. "But how do you know this is 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 very 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 monument."

At this time, Liang En obtained two cards, one bronze and one black. It seemed that the entire computer was, as Pierce said, one of the earliest computers produced by Apple, so he was able to obtain these two cards. card.

"This thing should be very valuable." Fan Meng suddenly raised a somewhat embarrassing question at this time.

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

"At least except for the manual, there are not many traces of rust on the entire computer, and all parts of the entire machine are original and have not been modified later."

"The last thing now is to find out whether this computer can run normally. If it can run normally, then this thing will be able to sell for a very high price."