Yes. It was him. Here's the article I wrote about the sale for my eletter: APPLE I SELLS FOR $14,000 An online auction hosted by the Vintage Computer Festival resulted in the sale of an Apple I computer for $14,000. That figure is significantly less than two previous Apple I sales. In 2000, the VCF auctioned another Apple I for $25,000. At about the same time, another changed hands privately for $50,000. This unit is in good working condition and has had only two sockets replaced. The seller bought it in non-working condition from the Homebrew Computer Club as part of a fund raiser. He paid about $80 for it in 1976 and got it working. A photo of the unit is available at http://www.vintage.org/special/apple-1/. This Apple I is comparable to the one sold in 2000, says VCF founder Sellam Ismail. "We had to scrounge up a couple transformers for the power supply, whereas the last one had the recommended power supply parts new (old stock) in the box and all the wires and switches to hook it up." The difference is that this Apple I was known to work and had a keyboard. "I think the $50,000 price was a fluke and is not supportable by past sales," says Sellam. "That was a case of someone with a lot of money wanting to have an Apple I." Two factors account for the higher price in 2000. That example had an original manual, a BASIC cassette and manual, and a set of spare and rare shift registers. "I say [the Apple I just sold] got about what the market would bear," says Sellam. "but I feel it was worth probably a couple to three thousand more. I think what may have hurt the sale is the lack of original documentation." The down economy also worked against the seller. "I told the seller it would be best to wait six months for the economy to heat up, but he was motivated to sell now." says Sellam. The seller chose to broker the sale through the VCF rather than eBay because he wanted to get maximum exposure for the sale. Lee Felsenstein, who designed the Processor Technology Sol-20 and the Osborne 1, referred the seller to Sellam and the VCF because of the earlier Apple I auction. The strategy paid off, as the sale attracted the attention of both the mainstream and high-tech press including the likes of CNN and ZDNet. The buyer, Roger Wagner, is no stranger to the Apple world. He has written many magazine articles about the Apple II and is the author of "Assembly Lines: The Book," an important early guide to assembly language programming on the Apple II published by Softalk. Roger also designed HyperStudio, a multimedia authoring system that he says was the top-selling classroom educational application from 1989 to 1999. Roger bid on the Apple I sold in 2000, but that one went "to a more motivated buyer. In this case, I was lucky in that I got the machine at the reserve price, so I didn'thave to decide how much more I would have paid, says Roger. He has purchased other vintage computers recently including and IMSAI and a Commodore PET. He also owns an Apple Lisa and a Bell & Howell-labeled Apple II, both of which he purchased new. The Apple I is, obviously, in good hands, as Roger has a keen appreciation of its historical significance. "The Apple I was truly a legendary point in history with the beginning of a truly 'personal' computer," he says. "Built into that innovation was also a culture of creativity, with both respect and empowerment of the individual. The history of computing in the last 25 years is not only one of technology, but the result of a philosophic view of how people can be both individually celebrated, and also achieve incredible results working as a team with other inspired people. Wozniak and Jobs not only set a technological example, but also a corporate cultural example that had as much, and perhaps even more of a societal impact as the computer itself." Roger eventually plans to post pictures of the Apple I on his (now unfinished) Web site. -- Michael Nadeau Editor/Publisher Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource www.classictechpub.com "Todd Nathan" wrote in message news:5dc2d27f.0205152314.d8fdac7@posting.google.com... > Did THE Roger Wagner buy that apple 1 for 14000? > Was that the real RW? Of RW publishing fame?