Considered sold. The authentic Apple-1 computer prototype was sold at auction in Boston, Massachusetts for $677,196 (677,839.95 euros), reports the Associated Press. It was an anonymous collector from the Bay Area (California) who won the bet on Thursday, August 18, according to RR-Auction, the auction house that initiates the transaction.
“The Holy Grail”
The machine, dating from the mid-1970s, was used in 1976 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to show it to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first computer stores. personal of the world, says RR-Auction.
In 1976, Apple-1s were among the first models of pre-assembled personal computers (with the components already soldered onto the motherboard in particular), but were often sold without a case or keyboard.
“It’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auction, introducing the item. The prototype was kept in the garage where the company was founded, now owned by Steve Jobs’ adoptive sister, before being handed over by the latter to RR Auction some 30 years ago.
Source: BFM TV
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