By Malcolm Owen
One of the rare surviving operational Apple-1 computers will be heading to auction in late September, with the working piece of computing history estimated to fetch as much as $400,000 when it goes on sale.
The auction, due to take place on September 25 at 1PM in Boston by Invaluable.com in its “Remarkable Rarities” sale, will sell one of the original 200 Apple-1 units designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and is one of the estimated 60 to 70 that are still operational. According to the auctioneer, the computer was restored to original working order in June 2018 by expert Corey Cohen, who also evaluated the condition of the unit as 8.5 out of 10.
The computer was originally sold through The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, priced at the time at $666.66. According to Executive Vice President of RR Auction, the firm selling the Apple-1 through Invaluable, the cosigner paid $300 to the original owner, and after learning BASIC and writing small programs, he apparently held onto it after realizing it was a piece of computing history.
Read more at appleinsider.com