Earlier this week a piece of computing history went on sale in London. Christie’s auction house was charged with the sale of one of the first computers ever produced by technology giant Apple, the first instance of such a sale being made in the public
domain since Apple products acquired their cult collectable status. The Apple-1, designed in the early 1970s and first brought to production in 1976 has sold for in excess of £100,000 to a private collector of computing memorabilia.
The joke among unsentimental tech utilitarians is that the Apple-1 is of little value in terms of today’s computing standards. Fortunately for Christies, and the historical prestige of the Apple brand, this did not stop auction attendees from bidding on the one-of-a-kind piece of technological memorabilia. Numerous notable tech, computing and webhosting aficionados were all in attendance for the auction.
Existing figures pertaining to the Apple-1 suggest that there are no more than 200 in existence, and the model auctioned off at Christie’s came in its original box, including the multi-coloured Apple logo used at the company’s inception. In something of a cruel joke on potential bidders, the Christie’s auctioneer prefaced the sale by saying that the computer originally went on sale for only $666USD.
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