Waspada.co.id – A prototype of Steve Jobs’ Apple-1 computer is up for auction today, and is expected to sell for more than $500,000.
Information, this Apple-1 is the first computer made and manually soldered by Steve Wozniak in 1976.
At that time, this computer prototype was used by Steve Jobs to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California.
It is known, The Byte Shop is the first Apple-1 retailer after Steve Jobs managed to convince Terrel to order 50 complete assembled machines and sell them for USD 666.66 each.
The prototype of the Apple-1 computer that will be auctioned has been matched with a photo taken by Terrel in 1976, showing the prototype in use.
Reported by Apple Insider, Friday (7/22/2022), this machine is listed as machine number two in the Apple-1 Registry and is considered lost until it is authenticated by an expert, Corey Cohen.
As RR Auctions, a sales hosting site explains, there was some damage to the board.
The auction house explained, this prototype was on the property ‘Apple Garage’ years before being given by Steve Jobs to its current owner about 30 years ago.
Due to the scarcity of prototypes, RR Auction hopes to get a high price at auction despite the damage to the Apple-1 computer prototype.
Prototypes are not things to be immortalized
From Jobs’ point of view, a prototype is not something to be immortalized, but something to be reused.
Some of the ICs have been removed from their sockets, as have the microprocessor and other components, presumably for use in the early production Apple-1.
The board appears to have been damaged by pressure in the upper right, resulting in a crack running from near the power supply area above D12 down through the bottom of the board to the right of A15.
The missing piece is considered to have been thrown away, but can be rearranged thanks to Paul Terrell’s photos.
One of the distinguishing features of the “Apple Computer A” prototype was the use of three orange Sprague Atom capacitors, instead of the ‘Big Blue’ capacitors commonly used in the production Apple Computer 1.
Compared to the Apple-1 production machine, the prototype had the words “Apple Computer A,” with a different processor, and lacked the green protective coating on a typical Apple-1 computer. (liputan6.com)
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