More than 300,000 dollars: here is the minimum amount you will have to pay if you want to treat yourself to the Apple 1 prototype on sale at RR Auction at the moment. Estimated athalf a million euros, the beast was hand-welded by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple during the company's debut in the United States in 1976.
The device, which belonged to Steve Jobs, will officially find its lucky owner on FridayAugust 19next. However, it is very likely that the buyer remains unknown. You can try to participate in the auction yourself by followingthis link; fifteen people are already in the running. This is not the first time that an item of this type has been offered by RR Auction,which we were also able to see in action a few weeks ago.
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Piece of history
If this piece is so expensive, it is perhaps also because its past is more than remarkable. Indeed, it turns out that Jobs demonstrated it atPaul Terrellwhen he was still manager of the Byte Shop in California, one of the first personal computer stores. The objective was to make a sale that would be concluded successfully between the two men.
According to “Woz“, the order for fifty systems which will follow is for him the most significant event of the Apple firm. Since then, it has presented Macs which represent a significant part of the overall market alongside Windows alternatives. Latest foal to date:the MacBook Air M2 with MagSafe port, notch and macOS Monterey under the hood.
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Apple Computer 1 Data Sheet
Marketed from April 1976, the Apple 1 personal microcomputer only had 256 bytes of storage at the time and8 KB of RAM, expandable up to 64 kb. In total, around two hundred units were produced and sold on the West Coast. The price was then 666.66 dollars, which represents more than two thousand euros today taking into account inflation.
However, there are only a few Apple 1s still in working condition, which can be counted on the fingers of one hand and regularly appear at auction when they are not exhibited by private collectors.
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