LOL!..Apple 1 computer for sale at $400,000!

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the high tech gadgets of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past. Ever wondered how d first calculator was like? Well, that would peak a curious mind!


 The Apple 1 was the first computer built by the California technology company. The computer was hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who, according to legend, financed the device's construction by selling his HP-65 calculator (co-founder Steve Jobs also sold his VW campervan).

The inventor Blaise Pascal designed a mechanical calculator in 1642 -- regarded by many as the first decisive step toward modern microprocessors.The "Pascaline" was operated with a stylus to turn digit-wheels. These wheels connected to a "display" on the top of the device which showed the result after each equation. A sliding rule could be shifted to change the function of the device from addition to subtraction. Multiplication and division were also possible (though very difficult to execute).

Fortunately, a treasure trove of rarities, oddities and tech "firsts" have been brought together -- including an experimental 17th century mechanical calculator, a hundred-year-old telephone and an incredibly rare Apple 1 computer -- to be sold at auction Saturday in Cologne, Germany.

At the auction will be one of just six surviving functional Apple 1 computers -- a tech superstar which is likely to sell for a small fortune -- an estimated $400,000.

$400,000!! That's 60million naira mehn... oyibo pple sef!