A splendid forty. Although, to be precise, for years it has 38. What matters is that this prototype computer Apple-1, a relic in all cases, if it takes them very well because it still works. And ‘one of the 50 examples of proto-Apple in circulation.
The gem was auctioned for $ 365,000 which is about 295 thousand euro. It is not much, considering that other twins Apple-1 have been sold for much more ($ 905,000). Christie’s estimated initially for you to put a figure that was between 400 thousand and 600 thousand dollars.
The computer had already been sold for $ 600 from Steve Jobs himself in 1976, the years of the epic parents’ garage in which the inventor of the apple was assembling the future pc. What makes the precious object, in fact, is the check that goes with it, headed by Charles Ricketts, the former owner of the machine, to Apple, where it says: “Purchased in June 1976 by Steve Jobs in the garage her parents in Los Altos. “
The ancestor of the iPad is still fit, able to run the original software, Microsoft BASIC, and also the video game Star Trek, originally scheduled for the Apple -1.
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