Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:40AM from the hey-motherboard-problems-are-an-apple-tradition dept.

Dave Knott writes One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc's first pre-assembled computer, the Apple 1, sold for $905,000 at an auction in New York on Wednesday. The final price outstrips expectations, as auction house Bonhams had said it expected to sell the machine, which was working as of September, for between $300,000 and $500,000. The buyer was The Henry Ford organization, which plans to display the computer in its museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Only 63 surviving authentic Apple 1's were listed in an Apple 1 Registry as of January out of the 200 that were built. The auctioned computer is thought to be one of the first batch of 50 Apple-1 machines assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steve Job's family garage in Los Altos, California in the summer of 1976. It is also believed to be one of only 15 that still have functioning motherboards. That's a bit more beastly than the original price.

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No surprise by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-23 03:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Apple hardware is always over-priced, right?
1. Re:No surprise by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-23 06:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Please stop posting factual and logical comments, it takes away from the usual anti-Apple circlejerk.
Wrong Price! by hedgemage · 2014-10-23 03:55 · Score: 4, Funny

What a bunch of frickin' casuals! If they truly knew their history, the price would have been $905,666.66.
Re:Steve who? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-23 04:16 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean Steve Woznia.
Ripped off by Sir+Realist · 2014-10-23 04:23 · Score: 2, Funny

He coulda got a brand new iMac for no more than half that.
Re:Steve who? by Dr.+Evil · 2014-10-23 04:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Steve Job was friends with Steve Wozniac, they're two normal guys who get a lot of strange mail. They live next to Mike Roe, the founder of Mikeroesoft.