In this digital era, people are ready to spend a massive amount of money for any technological stuff that includes impressive features, but there are still some ancient materials which are very precious.
Recently a superfan buys Steve Job’s old Apple-1 computer for $355,500. The sale went down at Christie’s in New York City. The machine was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976.
Mashable writes, “The computers came with a motherboard, but Apple fans today wouldn’t walk across the street for a product like this one. It was sold without a casing, power supply, a keyboard, or a monitor. But the already assembled motherboard was enough to push Apple over the competitors and take its high rank in the tech world”.
This particular computer was expected to go for between $300,000 and $500,000, so the lucky buyer got it on the cheap end. Christie’s noted a sale in 2013 for $671,400 and another in 2014 at an outrageous $905,000, added Mashable.
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak’s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple’s first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation, a VW Microbus, for a few hundred dollars, and Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500; however, Wozniak said that Jobs planned to use his bicycle if necessary. It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
Production was discontinued on September 30, 1977, after the June 10, 1977 introduction of its successor, the Apple II, which Byte magazine referred to as part of the “1977 Trinity” of personal computing (along with the PET 2001 and the TRS-80).