Not really. The Apple I was discontinued within a year of release, if you saved that money until 1978 then you could get an Apple II that would be supported for almost 20 years give-or-take.

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chocochunks 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Part of the reason the Apple I is so rare, is that Apple offered an Apple I trade in program. Apple would destroy the boards of Apple Is that were traded in for Apple IIs.

* Not that there was really many to begin with.

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biofox 9 hours ago | parent [-]

What was the reasoning behind that?

	▲	Dwedit 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you. Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability.
	▲	paulryanrogers 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Probably to reduce support costs. I recall my junior high school had only Apple IIs in 1995.

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tracerbulletx 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But very really if you bought it and kept it until now.

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gignico 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even better, what if I had invested that money in Apple stock instead? :)

	▲	whartung 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use to muse if I put the money I spent on computer gear back in the day instead into woodworking tools, I'd not only have a bigger, better shop than Norm Abrahm, all of the tools would probably still work.