Rare, Vintage and Fully Functional Apple 1 That Steve Jobs Programmed Fetches $365,000
A rare working Apple -1 computer - one that Steve Jobs himself worked on - has fetched $365,000 at NY auction. The unit is one of 60 from Apple's first line of machines.
This system was purchased back in July 1976 by a man named Charlie Ricketts for $600, who dropped by Steve Jobs' parents' garage in Palo Alto. He further paid another $193 for some extra programming work on the machine.
In October 2014, Henry Ford Museum purchased an Apple I for US $905,000.
"It was time for me to move on, and it's good that it's sold," Bob Luther, last owner of the system said. "Owning it has been an incredible experience. And I can't complain. I'm a big Apple fan and I'm not very diversified in my 401(k) because a very high percentage of it is in Apple stock. And [that Apple stock] has been very good to me."
The computer came in a blue metal box and a period Datanetics keyboard in a wooden housing. The machine can run Microsoft BASIC and an original Apple-1 Star Trek game.
Apple sold most of the Apple-1 units to the Byte Shop - one of the earliest personal computer shops - which retailed it for $666.666.
