How would you like to own the Macintosh computer that was given to Gene Roddenberry by Apple directly? Now you can if you bid enough in an auction being presented by the Profiles In History website.

Profiles in History is the leader in Hollywood and movie memorobilia auction items. They’ve auctioned away some of the coolest items from some of the greatest sci-fi movies ever. Items like the “Cowardly Lion” costume from The Wizard of Oz ($805,000); a full-scale model T-800 Endoskeleton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($488,750); a T.I.E. Fighter filming miniature from Star Wars ($402,500); a King Kong six-sheet movie poster ($345,000); the Command Chair from the “U.S.S. Enterprise” ($304,750); Harrison Ford’s hero blaster from Blade Runner ($258,750); the original “Robot” from Lost in Space ($264,500); Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber ($240,000); a Frankenstein one-sheet movie poster ($212,400); the Black Beauty car from The Green Hornet ($192,000); George Reeves’ Superman costume from The Adventures of Superman ($126,500); the H.R. Giger designed Alien creature suit from Alien ($126,500); a full-scale T-Rex head from Jurassic Park ($126,500), the Leaping Alien Warrior figure from Aliens ($126,500), Christopher Reeve’s ‘Superman’ costume from Superman: The Movie ($115,000), C-3PO’s helmet ($120,000),  The Wizard of Oz ‘Winkie’ Guard Costume ($115,000); a “Ming the Merciless” cape from Flash Gordon ($115,000) and the Hydraulic screen-used Velociraptor from The Lost World: Jurassic Park II ($115,000).

Enough about that though, we’re talking about getting a piece of Star Trek and Apple history by successfully winning the Macintosh 128, which was later upgraded to a Macintosh Plus for Mr. Roddenberry. The auction will take place October 8-9th and you can put in your bid at the auction website. Estimated price for the item is $800-$1200 which I think is kind of odd because that’s about what you’d pay for a bare bones Mac computer today.

Update: Current price of the item is now $2750.

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Post from: EveryJoe

Did you know the very first Apple Macintosh computer to ever roll off the assembly line was given to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry? (I didn’t.) Profiles in History — the same folks auctioning Michael Jackson’s white glove and a whole slew of Lost memorabilia — are auctioning off the iconic PC, which bears the telltale serial number of F4200NUM0001.

The very first Macintosh Plus 1MB will come with a signed letter from Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod. Built at Apple Computer in Fresno, California, the computer was presented to Roddenberry as a gift by Apple in 1986. The Mac Plus is a very historical piece, having been the first mass produced computer to utilize a mouse. It supported the double-sided floppy disk and was the first Mac with a SCSI port.

The computer will be part of Profiles in History’s special auction of Hollywood memorabilia taking place October 8th – 9th.

Image: Profiles in History.

Post from: EveryJoe