More than 500 Apple computers and related accessories will be auctioned off next month online and in Beverly Hills, California. The auction will feature many products from 1977 to 2008, including Macintosh systems from the 80s, more modern machines like the 2001 iMac G3, and old school accessories like RH’s Mac N’ Frost external fan. Electronics and surge protector.
Auction house Julien’s Auctions has already participated in Apple auctions. Unfortunately, this includes the Steve Jobs Birkenstocks auction for an alarming $218,750. The upcoming auction, announced last week and spotted by sites like PetaPixel, will feature classic Apple items collected by Swiss collector Hanspeter Luzi.
The auction house ad describes Luci as a late historian with many hobbies, who also maintained a collection of old sewing machines now part of the German Sewing Machine Museum.
Luzi reportedly became a volunteer IT manager at schools, where he bought unwanted vintage computers and parts. The auction house said Luzi died in 2015 and his family decided to auction his collection of Apple products.
The Julien’s Auctions announcement included a sneak peek at some of the hundreds of items from the collection that will be on display next month.
One of the most notable items on the list is the 1983 Lisa. No wonder it has the most expensive valuation of all, ranging from $10,000 to $20,000. Though we wouldn’t be surprised if an old computer sells for more. Working Lisa computers have fetched over $50,000 in previous auctions, including on eBay. (If the whole Lisa is too expensive, the Lisa OS source code might be more suitable for your budget.)
Like some of the other computers in the auction, the Lisa comes with extra features. A collector with deep pockets can walk away with the system, as well as the keyboard, the box it came in, and the “Lisa CRT Magnet Spare Parts Kit (652-4520)”. For an in-depth look at a computer that was one of the first to use a mouse and a GUI, check out our recent deep dive into the short life of the Apple Lisa.
For those looking to spend less, the auctioneer also advertises a Lisa motherboard, as well as other Apple motherboards from 1978. The boards are expected to sell for up to $200 each.
Julien’s will also try to sell a variety of Apple computers from the 80s, including the 1980 Apple III with III monitor and “assorted connecting cables”(estimated price up to $500), and the first 1984 Macintosh. repeatedly even throwing the floppy, apparently still in the Macintosh 128K drive.
Meanwhile, the 1989 Macintosh Portable will be sold with “an Apple Portable canvas case, adapter, connecting cables, Apple luggage tag, and two German-language manuals (one copyrighted 1988, the other copyrighted 1990),”according to Julien’s Auctions.. Apple fans will remember this laptop as the first Mac to run on a (heavy) battery, and as one of the first personal computers to feature an active-matrix LCD.
For those who couldn’t afford the car when it was sold for a short time for $6,500, you can get it for a much more affordable price of $300 to $500, according to the auction house.
Other items up for auction include 1983-1984 Apple IIe and IIC joysticks and a 1994 Apple QuickTake 100 camera.
However, it will be interesting to see what these products actually go for, as Apple’s expensive auctions are not new. More recently, the original 2007 iPhone, originally scheduled to sell for $50,000 at auction, ended up selling for $63,356.
The Julien’s Apple auction will run from March 27th to 30th.