“The first ever Apple computer that company founder Steve Jobs sold from his parents’ garage is up for sale – for a whopping £150,000,” The Daily Mail reports. “There were about 200 examples of the original ‘Apple-1’ that were launched in 1976 and only a few survive today.”
“They came with a tiny 8K memory – 524,000 times less than is standard with today’s Apple computers. It would not have the capacity to store one song,” The Daily Mail reports. “This example will be the first ever to be sold by a major auction house when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s of London.”
“Incredibly it comes with the original packaging, instruction manuals and a signed letter by billionaire Jobs, who is still head of the company. The Apple-1s were the first fully pre-assembled computer to be produced, but even so did not come with a monitor or keyboard,” The Daily Mail reports. “Museums and a new breed of collector are desperate to get their hands on these early examples. Early geeks would have had to part with $666.66 (£410) to buy one of the first Apples.”
The Daily Mail reports, “Julian Wilson, from Christie’s, said: ‘Steve Jobs sold these from his parents’ garage and there is a growing appreciation of the history of computing – and this is where home computers started. And finding one in this condition is unheard of.’ The sale at Christie’s in London is on November 23.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chas” for the heads up.]
One song? it couldn’t even store the icon for the file
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And that is the starting price
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The first Zune is on auction starting at .25 cents.
Ok and now somebody says that Macs ARE expensive
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he tried to sell it on eBay for $50,000!!! Christie’s are thieves!
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Used Apples are worth more than used Dells.
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It looks like something Jony Ive would have designed when he was 9 years old, which he was.
@jax44
haaaaahahaa that was hillarious
That was when electrolytic capacitors were real manly man capacitors (knock you on your butt if not dealt with properly) and when people knew how to write clean code!
“Rare ‘Apple-1’ computer…”
2 words:
1) Museum
2) piece
MaWo: ‘effects’. As in, ‘Unknown at the time.’
Steve is short on cash eih??
@Wonderer, Steve is NOT the one selling. The headline is referring to the original seller, Steve Jobs. The headline could have used a couple commas.
It should have read:
Rare ‘Apple-1’ computer, sold by Steve Jobs from parents’ garage, goes on sale for £150,000
History.
“The Apple-1s were the first fully pre-assembled computer to be produced”
??? “Fully pre-assembled”? I thought the “Apple 1” was nothing more than a motherboard for hobbyists. I thought the entire assembly was left to the owner.
——RM
Looked at the article. Yeah, “fully pre-assembled” my ass. It was a motherboard and you made your own computer with it. What the hell is the author smoking that he would call the Apple 1 a “fully pre-assembled computer”?
——RM
Any interest in a fully operational Mac IIci? I’d sacrifice at $100,000!
They owner lives in my town!
It’s too bad you can never tell what your neighbor is hiding in their attic.