An original Apple-1 computer prototype owned by the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs himself is now up for auction. Currently priced at more than $400,000 USD, the computer was created in 1976 by Jobs and Apple‘s other co-founder Steve Wozniak, who actually hand-soldered the circuit board and electronics himself. The computer was then used by Jobs as a demonstration unit when he convinced Paul Terrell to stock it at Mountain View, California’s The Byte Shop, one of the world’s first personal computer stores.
Terrell went on to buy 50 Apple-1 computers, and Wozniak called the sale “the biggest single episode in all of the company’s history.” He added that “Nothing in subsequent years was so great and so unexpected.” Unfortunately, the computer board was damaged in later years, resulting in a crack that runs down the right-hand side of it, but it nonetheless continues to represent an immensely important piece of technological history.
For those interested in bidding on Job’s Apple-1 prototype, you can head over to RR Auction’s listing.
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