Last Tuesday, an Apple-1 type computer was auctioned, one of those conceived and manufactured by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976, just as these two pioneers and innovators took their first steps in building what would later become a transnational very heavy.
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Two things stand out: that this computer is fully functional, that is, that it still works, and that it can be sold for at least $ 300,000, the price of a house anywhere in the country.
The other striking thing is that at the time, Wozniak and Jobs have invested about $ 250 in the purchase of their accessories, and that they have sold it for the shocking figure of $ 666.66. “As a mathematician, I like repeating digits and that’s what I thought it should be,” Wozniak admitted in 2014 for Bloomberg.
A somewhat … different design
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Basically it is a circuit board and cassette interface (allowing you to save content to a standard audio tape), plus a separate keyboard kit and video monitor that are enclosed in a bulky wooden box for your protection.
It also comes with other accessories that allow it to function properly, including a power supply, a video modulator that displays the output on a TV or monitor screen, as well as copies of the user manual.
This copy of the Apple-1 that went up for auction at RR Auction had previously been exhibited at the Computer History Museum, located in Silicon Valley, and was restored in 2019 by an Apple expert named Corey Cohen.
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An Apple 1 computer is on display in a file photo ahead of an auction on Monday, June 24, 2013, at the Museum of Computer History in Menlo Park, California. The computer known as the Apple 1 dating from 1976 was sold at an auction by Christie’s on the Internet for almost $ 388,000 on Monday, July 8, 2013. It was one of the first computers manufactured by Apple. (AP Photo / Ben Margot, File)
According to urban legend, when they invented the Apple-1, Wozniak and Jobs wanted to sell the circuit board in parts so that customers themselves could assemble it. But Paul Terrell, the owner of the Byte Shop computer store, located in Mountain View, California, convinced them that customers would want to buy a pre-built computer. This was detailed by Walter Isaacson in the authorized biography “Steve Jobs”, published in 2016.
It was then that, for a month, Wozniak and Jobs got down to work assembling those Apple-1 computers in the garage of Jobs’ house. The owner of Byte Shop bought 50 units from them, friends bought another 50, and finally the couple of entrepreneurs kept another 100 computers to place them at different points of sale.
Of these, only 175 were sold, which is why the model has become such a sought-after collector’s item.
Some very precious trophies
It is not the first time that an Apple-1 computer has been auctioned for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In 2019, the Christie house in London auctioned one for more than $ 500,000.
Earlier in 2014, the Henry Ford Museum paid $ 905,000 for one of these relics at auction.
In 2016, another Cohen-restored Apple-1 was sold to co-founders of skincare company Glamglow for $ 815,000.
According to CNBC, this Apple-1 computer is part of a much larger Apple souvenir auction that includes a 1982 employee bonus note addressed by Jobs to former design engineer Jerry Manock, as well as seven old Apple T-shirts that could cost more than $ 1,000 each.
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