NEW YORK, November 4th. / Corr. TASS Ivan Pil’shchikov /. One of the first to offer the customer assembled computers American company Apple put up for auction Christie’s auction house in New York, said Monday representatives of Christie’s.
The estimated cost of the device of the brand Apple-1 is 500 thousand. 600 thousand. dollars. It is noted that this is the only remaining unit of the type sold to customers in person with one of the founders of Apple – Steve Jobs. The deal was made in 1976 in Jobs’ garage owned by the family, then he himself was 21 years old. Purchased a computer resident of California.
“It all started with Apple-1 and with the name of the computer – said the director of Christie’s Trading associated with objects of decorative art, Andrew Makvinish. – Few people remember when they see the child, playing with the iPad or iPhone, that it had begun Apple-1. “Many people want to get that same device from which you started the digital revolution,” – he said.
offered for auction Christie’s, scheduled for December 11, computer was part of the first batch of Apple-1 produced in the summer of 1976 another founding Apple – Steve Wozniak. 50 of these computers it with the support of like-minded people gathered in Jobs’ garage. Originally Wozniak invented it only for personal use and only later decided to sell.
Apple-1 with sufficiently high demand and created a revolution in the field of computer technology. The most significant advantage of its creators believe the computer convenience when entering data from the keyboard, as well as their immediate display on the screen. First customer was the owner of a computer store called Paul Terrel. Later were created several hundred units of this model.
At the end of October with Bonhams auction in New York on another computer brand Apple-1 was sold for 905 thousand. Dollars, which is almost two times higher than its estimated value . It is thought that by now the world has less than 50 units of this model.
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