One of the first computers Apple, Steven Jobs personally sold Charles Ricketts from California, put up for sale by the auction house Christie’s in New York, the agency reported Reuters.
At Christie’s said that this is the only remaining unit assembled in a garage owned by the family of the founder of Apple, and sold them personally. Steven Jobs was then 21 years old.
Apple Computer 1 was created by Steve Wozniak for personal use. His friend Jobs persuaded Wozniak shy to submit a gadget at a meeting of the “Club of homemade computers” in Palo Alto. Became interested in the new model, only one person, the owner of a computer store that ordered a batch of 50 cars.
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In total, was founded about 200 Apple computers 1, they were sold at a price of 666.66 dollars – Wozniak liked repeating numbers, and the “factory” price of $ 500 due to the trade allowance was increased by a third. The gadget comes ready to use, earning him the title of the world’s first personal computer – the other computers of the time were a kit for self-assembly.
Before survived 43 devices of this type, six of them are operational. In 2013, two Apple 1 in working condition were sold for 677 and 681 thousand dollars. At the end of October at Bonhams auction in New York unworkable, but a complete Apple 1 was bought for a record 905,000 dollars, which is almost double the starting price.
The estimated cost of this device $ 500-600 thousand. Gadget put up for auction a collector from Virginia, kupivshem him in 2004 at a police auction of unclaimed items. After the first owner of the computer is called “Ricketts”.
– Expert Apple launched the computer with the original program Microsoft BASIC and played in StarTrek, to check if it works – said the Christie’s.
Bidding scheduled for December 11.
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