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HP-65 helped founding Apple - Juergen (CH) - 11-28-2006 Just read about Steve Wozniak's autobiography "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It" (a really long title ;-). There I found the following detail:
Quote: Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - Klaus - 11-28-2006 The memories section of this museum also contains a story about the two Steves.
Edit:: memory #51 is the one I am referring to Edited: 28 Nov 2006, 5:15 a.m.
Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - Paul Brogger - 11-28-2006 I wonder: * what that $250 is worth in 2006 dollars, and Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - Gerson W. Barbosa - 11-28-2006 I once read that $395 (the HP-35 price tag) in 1972 were equivalent to $1,900 in 2005 (considering just the inflation). Assuming that HP-65 was sold in 1976, those $250 should be now $1,090.47, if I have used the right formula. Anyway, this is a job for the Business Analysts around here :-)
An ordinary HP-65 would sell for much less today, even if my calculation is wrong. Woz's 65 would sell for a little more, but only if they had succeeded in founding Apple without this sale... He's got no reason to complain :-)
Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - bill platt - 11-28-2006 Your inflation numbers seem pretty close. They work out to 4.9% per annum average which seems reasonable. (Double digits in the 70s and very low during the 90s averaging out). Real estate has been appreciating at around 5% over that same period.
All this is in U.S. of course. Edited: 28 Nov 2006, 3:59 p.m.
Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - Jeff O. - 11-29-2006 According to this CPI calculator that I use when such calculations are needed, $250 in 1976 would be equivalent to $886.20 today. A run-of-the-mill HP-65 would go for far less than that, but if you could find the actual HP-65 that Steve Wozniak sold to found Apple, it might be worth a little more.
Re: HP-65 helped founding Apple - Paul Brogger - 11-29-2006 Y'know, someone who frequents this Forum may well be the holder of that particular calculator. But unless Wozniak remembers the serial # (or H-P releases some archived sales records), we won't likely ever know.
Or, maybe Woz etched his driver's license number in the back case with a soldering iron -- like I did with my first HP-21. (Kids -- Do NOT try this at home!)
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