Apple 1 auctioned for record price

The auction house Breker in Cologne has indicated that one of the first copies of the Apple 1 sold for almost half a million euros, which reached a record price. As spokesman Uwe Breker reported on Saturday, it was one of the first computer, the former and now deceased Apple CEO Steve Jobs had with partner Steve Wozniak built in 1976 in the garage of his home. The computer is to remain functioning and was sold with the keyboard, monitor, cassette and transformer. A YouTube video shows him in the operation.



From Apple 1 to have been a total of only 200 units produced and sold for U.S. $ 666.66 each - without keyboard and housing. The Apple-1-page registry collects information on surviving units, 43 are known, it should work just the sixth In previous auctions achieved the computer equivalent of a maximum 288,000 euros.

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