10% from Apple for $800 and Mare Nostrum boots (PCGH-Retro April 12)

…1976: Ronald Wayne, one of Apple’s co-founders, leaves the company just days after its founding. He sells his 10 percent stake for $800 (total, not per share!). Among other things, he designed the Apple logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I.

In 1982, the stake sold would have been worth around $1.5 billion. Subsequent performance was comparatively ‘modest’. On March 10, 2010 will be reported, Apple’s market capitalization has exceeded the 200 billion dollar mark for the first time, 10% would have been only a mere 20 billion US dollars and compared to 1982 just 13.3 times. At the interim stock high of $702.10 on September 19, 2012, Wayne’s 10 percent interest in Apple would have been worth approximately $65,931 million, or $65.9 billion, with a share issuance of 939.06 million shares.

The reason for Wayne’s exit was said to be that he, along with Apple’s other shareholders, Jobs and Woznyak, is personally liable for all of the company’s debts and thus also those of the other shareholders. That was too risky for him.

…2005: The Spanish supercomputer Mare Nostrum boots for the first time. At that time it was the fastest European computer and the fourth fastest in the world. But the June 2005 edition of the top 500 list of the fastest computers only leads it in 5th placea year later he is already out of the top 10 flown. after one upgrade, which more than doubled computing power, ranked it 77th in the November 2009 list. It was originally based on 2,560 JS21 blade servers, each with two IBM PowerPC-970MP dual-core processors clocked at 2.3 GHz.