An Apple-1 of 1976, a computer built and sold by Steve Jobs himself, was beaten to $ 365,000 at an auction at Christie’s. The price is not as high as might be expected initially, or at least hoped its owner.
Although, in the words of Steve Wozniak, no machine has been built in the garage of the parents of Steve Jobs, however, is likely that the first computer (first real prototypes) were sold there. L ‘ Apple-1 , the subject of an auction at Christie’s in New York last Thursday, was presented as the last one sold by Steve Jobs himself in 1976 at a price of $ 600. A detail not just, which has increased the price estimated by Christie between 400,000 and $ 600,000 but that did not “excited” buyers. Tenders in fact reached $ 365,000 , well below estimates.
Bob Luther , the owner / seller of computers, said he was “a little ‘disappointed” especially considering that last October another Apple-1 was sold at $ 905,000 . That model was a computer built and assembled by Steve Wozniak, and one of the top 50 cars sold by Apple in 1976. Bob Luther adds: “It ‘s time to move on, I’m glad that my Apple-1 was sold. It ‘was an amazing experience, I can not complain, “. Yes, because, despite the computer was sold at a lower price than expected, Luther has earned us so much; had bought it at an auction in 2004 for just $ 7,600 local.
The new owner of the Apple-1, a rare piece produced in only 70 copies , is not known the sale was conducted by phone. “I can not even thank him and congratulate him” , concludes Bob Luther. The computer, still working after 38 years, will be embellished with a plaque on which it will say: “Purchased in June 1976 by Steve Jobs in his parent’s garage in Los Altos.” A must-have for true connoisseurs, is not it?
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