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Friday, July 12, 2013

Iconic 1976 Apple I computer auctioned for $387,750

Another of the 1976 Apple I computers was reportedly auctioned for 387,750 dollars.

According to Stuff.co.nz, the Apple I computer was auctioned at online auction Christie’s and an Italian collections company Bolaffi, purchased the vintage computer. The seller was a retired school psychologist from Sacramento, California.

The report added that another Apple 1 out of the lot of 200 such vintage computers was sold in May for a record 671,400 dollars by a German auction house which broke the record of 640,000 dollars set in November.

An estimated 175 to 200 of the rudimentary computers were produced in the family garage of the late Apple founder and visionary Steve Jobs. Steve G. Wozniak, Apple’s hardware hacking engineer, designed the primitive Apple-1 computer.

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