Apple-1 computer auctioned for $ 213,600
Yesterday at auction Christie the Apple-1 personal computer (Apple I) was sold in working condition ( description of the lot ). The price was £ 133,250 ($ 213,600) - this is a new record for the cost of a serial personal computer. In 1976-77, about 200 copies of the Apple-1 were manufactured, then they were priced at $ 666.66 (plus $ 75 separately for the cassette interface).
The lot includes an Apple-1 motherboard (number 82), a 6502 microprocessor (R6502P number R6502-11 8145), 8 KB RAM, a cassette interface, a printed letter from Steve Jobs and the necessary manuals with the original Apple logo - an apple hanging on the tree over Isaac Newton.
According to AP , the private collector Marco Boglione has become the buyer of the lot.
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It is also reported that Steve Wozniak personally visited the auction and added a letter with a handwritten autograph to the computer kit. Incidentally, the Apple-1 computer was designed by Wozniak for personal use, but a friend Steve Jobs persuaded him to try to organize the sale of these devices.
Apple-1 went down in history as one of the easiest-to-use personal computers of the time. The motherboard was sent assembled with 30 chips, ready for use, and the buyer did not need to insert capacitors and memory on their own, as on other such kits for assembling a “home PC”. The buyer only had to connect the case, power supply, keyboard and monitor to the board.
The lessons learned by Wozniak in the process of assembling and selling the Apple-1 led him to create a much more successful Apple-II computer that became a bestseller.
Of the approximately 200 Apple-1 computers produced, from 30 to 50 copies have survived to date.
$ 213,600 is a new record for the cost of a serial personal computer. Previously, Apple-1 computers were sold at much lower prices: usually from $ 14 thousand to $ 16 thousand, with a maximum of $ 50 thousand.
The lot includes an Apple-1 motherboard (number 82), a 6502 microprocessor (R6502P number R6502-11 8145), 8 KB RAM, a cassette interface, a printed letter from Steve Jobs and the necessary manuals with the original Apple logo - an apple hanging on the tree over Isaac Newton.
According to AP , the private collector Marco Boglione has become the buyer of the lot.
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It is also reported that Steve Wozniak personally visited the auction and added a letter with a handwritten autograph to the computer kit. Incidentally, the Apple-1 computer was designed by Wozniak for personal use, but a friend Steve Jobs persuaded him to try to organize the sale of these devices.
Apple-1 went down in history as one of the easiest-to-use personal computers of the time. The motherboard was sent assembled with 30 chips, ready for use, and the buyer did not need to insert capacitors and memory on their own, as on other such kits for assembling a “home PC”. The buyer only had to connect the case, power supply, keyboard and monitor to the board.
The lessons learned by Wozniak in the process of assembling and selling the Apple-1 led him to create a much more successful Apple-II computer that became a bestseller.
Of the approximately 200 Apple-1 computers produced, from 30 to 50 copies have survived to date.
$ 213,600 is a new record for the cost of a serial personal computer. Previously, Apple-1 computers were sold at much lower prices: usually from $ 14 thousand to $ 16 thousand, with a maximum of $ 50 thousand.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108715/
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