One of the six remaining in working condition Apple-1 computers sold for $ 671,400

It is believed that throughout the world today there are six working copies of the computer Apple-1. The history of Apple Inc. began with these computers. They were collected personally by Steve Wozniak in the garage of Steve Jobs's parents. In total, about 200 computers were made, and only 50 have survived to our days. Most of them have not been working for a long time. In order to purchase the parts necessary for the production of a computer, Jobs sold his car - the Volkswagen T1 minibus minibus, and Wozniak - the programmable calculator HP-65 .



Apple 1 has an eight-bit MOS 6502 processor with a clock frequency of 1 MHz and 4 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 8 or even 48 kilobytes. Like other Apple products in the future, the main "chip" Apple-1 were not outstanding performance, and design and usability. Unlike most PCs of the time, which were sold as self-soldering kits, the Apple-1 motherboard was sold off-the-shelf, besides it had a keyboard, while most computers in this class only have a patch panel with plugs, switches and lights. .
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The sale of these computers started in July 1976 at a price of $ 666.66, and on Saturday, May 25, at an auction in Germany, Apple-1 went under the hammer for a record $ 671,400, that is, a thousand times more expensive. The computer, assembled by Steve Wozniak, was accompanied by instructions and a handwritten letter from Steve Jobs to the original owner, Fred Hatfield.