{"id":17915,"date":"2010-05-05T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2010-05-05T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:57:30","slug":"early-apple-tv-protype-from-1995-shows-up-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/early-apple-tv-protype-from-1995-shows-up-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Apple TV Prototype From 1995 Shows Up On eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just pause for a second. See that aluminum, slickly designed \u00c2\u00a3500 device you now call your Apple TV? Well, it didn&#8217;t always look that &#8216;Apple&#8217;.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Already sold for $46, @AppleInsider today discovered what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/10\/05\/05\/prototype_apple_tv_predecessor_from_1995_sells_for_46_on_ebay.html\" target=\"_blank\">appears to have been a early prototype<\/a> for the Apple TV we all know and love today, on eBay. The rare item was listed by eBay member <a href=\"http:\/\/myworld.ebay.com\/macdeals\/\" target=\"_blank\">macdeals<\/a>, and on closer inspection proved it was authentic. <\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the &#8216;Apple Interactive Television Box&#8217; as first introduced in October 1993, the device was discontinued in February 1994, carrying a retail price of <strong>$2,097<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/prototype.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A friend who is a former Oracle employee gave this to me in the late &#8217;90s, and I just came across it again after going through some boxes that were in storage for 10 years,&#8221; the seller, &#8220;macdeals,&#8221; wrote. &#8220;Does it work? I don&#8217;t know. Back in the day, I kept it on a shelf as a conversation piece. It is supposed to come with a remote, but I was never given one.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since then, the product has transformed into the one we all know today. A thin, light and modern digital media consumption center.<\/p>\n<p>[via @AppleInsider]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just pause for a second. See that aluminum, slickly designed \u00c2\u00a3500 device you now call your Apple TV? Well, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always look that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcApple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,174],"tags":[2442,2439,3504,2441,2440],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-tv","category-blog","tag-2442","tag-2439","tag-apple-tv","tag-ebay","tag-prototype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17924,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions\/17924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}