Un copy of Apple’s first computer model from 45 years ago, known as Apple-1 and built by hand by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, among others, will go on sale this Tuesday at an auction house in Monrovia, in California (USA).
This was explained to Efe on Monday by sources from the auction house John Moran Auctioneers, which expects this relic of the technology to reach a price close to $ 600,000.
According to the same sources, the computer is in perfect conditionIt has many original parts and works properly. Before the official bidding begins, John Moran Auctioneers has already received two offers of $ 250,000 for this computer.
The specimen that will be auctioned tomorrow is known as Chaffey College Apple-1 because its first owner in 1976 was a programming professor at Chaffey University, a center that is located in Rancho Cumamonga, east of Los Angeles.
A year later, this professor sold the computer for $ 650 – about $ 16 less than what it cost – to one of his students, who decided to keep it as his property for the next four decades, until today.
According to the house responsible for the bid, this copy to be auctioned was hand built by Jobs, Wozniak and others in a Los Altos, California garage in 1976.
Jobs, Wozniak and others assembled about 200 Apple-1 units in that garage, of which 175 were sold and of which now only about 60 exist worldwide. Of these, only 20 can work today, including the specimen Chaffey College Apple-1.
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According to the auction house, this example of Apple-1 is “unique” also because part of its structure is made of madera de Koa, a highly prized type of Hawaiian wood.
Although John Moran Auctioneers expects to sell it for $ 600,000, another working example of this model was auctioned in 2014 for $ 905,000 at the Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles. (efe)
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