Own the Original Apple Computer For a fab Quarter Million [Apple]

We all gotta start somewhere. For Steve Jobs , that meant his parents’ garage, where in 1976 he sold his first batch of 200 Apple-1 computers for the vaguely demonic price of $666.66. Now one’s going for $240,000 at auction.

That first machine-hand-carved, packing a whopping 8K memory-is the first of its kind to be sold by a significant auction house. Why the steep price? Other than being an enormous milestone in technological history, this particular Apple-1 comes in its original packaging, complete with handbook and a letter signed by Jobs himself.
It was the first fully pre-assembled computer produced, complete with a 1.0 MHz MOS 6502 processor and another cassette interface for read/write capability. It was, essentially, a glorified calculator. And today it’s a shocking reminder of the way far we’ve are available just 34 years. [ Daily Mail via 9 to 5 Mac ]

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