As Apple Inc is going stronger, one of
the few remaining examples of Apple Inc's first pre-assembled computer,
Apple-1, sold for $905,000 at an auction in New York on Wednesday, far
outstripping expectations.
The motherboard is believed to be one of
approximately 50 Apple 1 computers that were originally constructed by Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs' garage for sale in The Byte Shop. The
motherboard is numbered "01-0070."
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.
There were few buyers for the first
Apples until Paul Terrell, owner of electronics retailer Byte Shop, placed an
order for 50 and sold them for $666.66 each.
After that initial
success, Jobs and Wozniak produced another 150 and sold them to friends and
other vendors. Previously, a working Apple-I was sold by Sotheby's auction
house in 2012 for $374,500.Fewer than 50 original Apple-1s are believed to
survive.
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