Buy The Apple II Swan Station Computer from “Lost”

Buy The Apple II Swan Station Computer from “Lost”

Harking back to a time when Lost‘s mysteries had not been explained away with the MacGuffin of a stupid magic light, the original Dharma Initiative Apple II Plus computer used in the Pearl Station to release electromagnetic radiation every 108 minutes way back in Season Two is soon to go on sale.

If you’re interested in picking up this bit of Apple-centric television history, it’ll be auctioned off on August 21st. If you win, don’t worry about typing in the numbers: like everything in Lost, failure to follow the rules set down by the show’s creators will ultimately have no consequence whatsoever.

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  • firesign3000

    More unnecessary snark please! Must be rule one in tech blog writer’s style book.

  • William

    Looks more like an Apple II rather than a IIc

    Bill…

  • firesign3000

    Bill: You are correct, sir. The Apple used on the show was not a IIc either. You’d think someone writing for an Apple blog would know the difference. Of course John did write for Gawker blogs also, where accuracy or knowledge of the subject are far secondary to high snark levels.

  • Teahugger

    Wow, how are you qualified to write for a mac blog? You definitely have no clue on Apple’s history John. Read up on it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

  • John Brownlee

    Thanks for the correct, guys. Fixed!

  • amusingchoiceofwords

    Plus, in the show, they used some annoying fake smooth scrolling effect in post.. not the real screen at all.

  • http://Twitter.com/BJNemeth BJ Nemeth

    The hatch where the Lost characters were entering “the numbers” and pressing the button every 108 minutes was the Swan station, not the Pearl.