Own over 500 Apple devices at huge value

Luzi (who passed away in 2015) owned over 500 Apple devices from their launch between 1977 and 2008. That's what the community considers Luzi to be a true Apple fan. It's not all a real 'collection' as many of the computers were used by Luzi for teaching, but it's still an impressive number.

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Many of these were put on display a year ago to curious onlookers and then auctioned off for huge sums of money, as some of them were 'gems' from Apple itself.

The Hanspeter Luzi Vintage Apple Archive is what Luzi calls his vast collection of Apple computers. He is a curious guy and a collector in general. He previously hoarded old sewing machines that eventually became part of a museum in Germany.

As mentioned, Professor Luzi died almost 10 years ago due to an accident in the mountains. However, his computer collection is still protected by his colleague, Professor Erik Rosenblum - the head of the exhibition and subsequent auction in California containing part of this collection.

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For more than 30 years of collecting Apple devices, Luzi has been dedicated to teaching children with special abilities, and Apple computers play a supporting role in their intellectual development. However, no one knows how this professor was able to have such a large collection of more than 500 computers. In this collection, there are groups such as Apple II Plus - an improved version of the legendary Apple II and sold on the market for 3 years, from 1979 to 1982. Of course, the Apple II version is also not missing in the product catalog.

Also in that collection is another legendary computer, the Macintosh Plus. This was one of the longest-selling Apple computers, from 1986 to 1990. The Macintosh Plus was a follow-up to the original Macintosh in 1984, with improvements to the CPU with the Motorola 8 MHz and storage up to 128 KB. All were achievements in those years. There was even the first laptop, the Macintosh Portable, which was later discontinued.

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It's not all computers, as Luzi also collects other vintage gadgets, like the QuickTake 100. Introduced in 1994, the camera was designed to compete in the booming digital camera market. Despite subsequent iterations of the QuickTake 100, Apple failed miserably.

The total amount of money raised in the auction has not yet been announced. While they are not high-value devices, estimates for each item range into the tens of thousands of dollars. Unsurprisingly, some of them are hard to find. The most notable example is an Apple Lisa found in a landfill that recently sold at auction for $65,000.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 10 February 2025