Yesterday evening, we shared with you that a special product assembled by Steve Jobs, one of the founding partners of Apple, will be put up for auction. This product was Apple’s first computer, the Apple-1, which was produced nearly 45 years ago and was limited to just 200 units. But that wasn’t the only thing that made the model in question, which went up for auction, special. The model at the auction was assembled by Steve Jobs himself.
Attracting the attention of all collectors as well as technology collectors, the aforementioned Apple-1 model was put up for auction with bids starting at $200,000. The computer, which has the distinction of being one of the 20 Apple-1 models working today, ended and the computer was sold to its new buyer.
Sold for $400,000:
It sold for $400,000, along with a cassette containing the Apple-1 manual and Apple software, which was auctioned off at the John Moran Auction house in California and has only been used by two users to date. The computer was designed, assembled and tested by Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in collaboration with Patty Jobs and Daniel Kottke.
The Apple-1 had a price tag of $666.66 in 1976 when it was released. This odd price tag was due to Steve Wozniak’s love of repetitive numbers. Even the phone number he used at the time had repeating numbers. When we adapt the price of $ 666.66 to the present day according to inflation, a price tag of $ 3, 213 appears. So the Apple-1 was more expensive at the time than the new 16-inch MacBook Pro ($3,199), which is now on sale with top-of-the-line hardware with the M1 Max processor.
A different Apple-1 computer sold for $905,000 at an auction in New York in 2014.
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