Working out of his parent's garage, Steve Jobs introduced to the world in 1976, the Apple-1 computer that would evolve into a legacy and corporate giant.
Now collectors and apple "fanboys" have a chance to own a piece of the legacy by bidding on one of the original 200 wood-encased Apple-1 computers, built personally by a very young Jobs and Wozniak. This rare and unique collectible is going on auction at Christie's on November 23.
One of the 200 original wood-encased Apple-1 computers, built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their garage in 1976, is going up for auction at Christie’s in London on November 23.
Originally sold for an eerie $666.66, the Apple-1 is expected to sell for over $200,000, proving that it really can pay off to let ancient pieces of junk collect dust in your attic.
The winner of the auction will be receiving an Apple-1 motherboard, 8K bytes of RAM, and a couple capacitors, connectors and interfaces. The original shipping box and several other goodies, such as a typed letter from Steve Jobs to the original owner all pictured here:
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only $200,000 ??? they gotta try harder 30+ years from now when they gonna sell their current Macs in the spirit of Applism
How did they sell any computers, that look like expensive hill billy typewriters? It's amazing they got of the garage with a product like that.
The opening sentence of the article states that you can bid on a wood encased computer. It then becomes clear that the wood case is not included as part of the item, nor is the keyboard, and who knows what else. That is why it is only going for 200K instead of a lot more.
So maybe holding on to my 286 IBM will pay off down the road.
Sorry, just dreaming here.
No it Cant!
looks like Apple product prices haven't changed in 34 years.
I have this awesome vision that if I were rolling in the millions I'd just want to buy this...call a press event...and steamroll this machine.. literally....just run a steamroller right over it...back up and doing it again and again...and I'd find the lowest paid guy janitor at Apple to drive it...and pay him 3x his salary to do so... Why? Because I hate Apple that much. That's my opinion and I'm stickin to it.
How did they sell any computers, that look like expensive hill billy typewriters? It's amazing they got of the garage with a product like that.
Very insightful comment.
Great job numbnut...
Surprised it's only $200,000 really. Thought fanatical collectors would pay more than that.
a total hunk of crap. I should have saved my craps from 1987 they would be worth millions if this is worth 200k.
I wonder what I can get for my apple II?
The opening sentence of the article states that you can bid on a wood encased computer. It then becomes clear that the wood case is not included as part of the item, nor is the keyboard, and who knows what else. That is why it is only going for 200K instead of a lot more.
Good catch there; will be interesting to see what it REALLY fetches (you know what they say about rich people having more money than sense). The reality, is that this MOBO is useless, the caps are probably dried up and even though you may pay $200K for it, an Indian/Chinese recycler will give you a couple of pennies for it.
I'm gonna laugh if someone who has only Windows computers in their homes purchases this, and gives the reason, "Because it was actually good back then".
[citation]Originally sold for an eerie $666.66[/citation]
I knew it, Apple is the Devil!
8 bits of history.
Commodore owned Apple and PC
I've got a circa 1976 Texas Instruments calculator, asking price: $3,000. Anyone foolish enough to buy it from me?
Dang it, I should've kept that vintage 1986 Tandy 1000EX computer. It'd be worth a mint in 10 years.
What a joke.
BUT...BUT...BUT...Can it play...Oregon Trail??
You probably expected me to say "Crysis".
Some old vintage Apple computers are worth a lot of money as well as we see here.I'm a PC guy but I have saved some oldies from thrift stores.
I actually found 2 original 1984 Macintosh machines with serial # of 2336 and 5132 on the logic boards.These were the first of 6,000 sold in the dealerships beginning in Jan 1984.I did however have to repair them to get them operational (bad caps on the analog board and the grease on the 400k drives was hardened).
Eventually I obtained some accessories for them too (external drives,printer,modem and also got hundreds of software titles so they wouldn't be useless.I even have the Macintosh Guided Tour cassette tape and disk.
Would still like to get an Apple LISA though (these are worth a lot of money if you ever find one (especially in a thrift store)).
So be on the look out.
I'm gonna laugh if someone who has only Windows computers in their homes purchases this, and gives the reason, "Because it was actually good back then".
I think that a lot of people appreciate what Wozniak and Jobs did back then making early microcomputers popular and fairly widespread with the Apple II in 1977 and later models.The explosion of sales of the popularity of early microcomputers got the interest of IBM who came out later with their own the IBM PC.One can both hate and love Apple at the same time.Back then it was the Woz who was the true creative genius and Jobs was the opportunist.
Without Wozniak,Jobs might have ended up as a street bum or just a salesman.
Without Jobs,Wonziak would just have a career as an engineer.
Together they made history whether we appreciate it or not.
trash then trash now.
even as a young boy, steve knew he could rip people off before even having a company
$666.66, bit/byte Apple Logo, German Tank OS names, it's getting creepy... ;-)
"Apple-1 computer that would evolve into a legacy and corporate giant."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this computer evolve into something that practically had Apple at the point of closing up shop. Then they stole (yes pick whatever verb you want depending on your viewpoint of Apple) code from other companies and that is what they really evolved from?
And my wife wants me to trow away my collection of old CPUs. Hah. I have a Pentium and a Pentium w/MMX. No way I am ever throwin them away.
If it weren't for the Apple I, I'd still be a virgin. Thanks Steve!
"Apple-1 computer that would evolve into a legacy and corporate giant."Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this computer evolve into something that practically had Apple at the point of closing up shop. Then they stole (yes pick whatever verb you want depending on your viewpoint of Apple) code from other companies and that is what they really evolved from?
I heard Windows gave them a bunch of money or something because if apple went under Windows was gonna get hit in the face by monopoly and other kinds of lawsuits from the fed.
wow is that on the picture?
what>? they were over priced pieces of junk back then too?