Six hundred dollar turned out to $365,000 in 38
years as a fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs
sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 sold for that much amount at Christie's
auction on Thursday.
The price fell shy of Christie's estimate of
$400,000 to $600,000 and was far less than the $905,000 paid by the Henry Ford
organization in October for one of the computers.
The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, named after
its original owner Charles Ricketts, is the only known surviving Apple-1
documented as having been sold directly by Jobs to an individual from the Los
Altos, California family home, according to the auction house.
Fewer than 50 original Apple-1s are believed to be in existence of the few hundred originally produced.
Fewer than 50 original Apple-1s are believed to be in existence of the few hundred originally produced.
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