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Meanwhile, Apple-1 in original box signed by Woz goes for $736,862
Richard Currie Mon 21 Dec 2020 // 12:40 UTC Share
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Steve Jobs may no longer be with us but the cult of Apple persists as fanbois haemorrhage money to own pieces from the company s past.
Cupertino relics are known to fetch eye-watering sums at auction, like the Apple-1 that went for a stonking $375,000 in 2018, or indeed the early consumer computer s documentation, which sold for almost $13,000 last year by itself.
But scruffy notes by Apple s other founding Steve – Wozniak – for a prototype of the Apple II home computer have dwarfed them all by raking in a massive $630,272.50 during online bidding led by Boston-based RR Auctions between 10 and 17 December.
Apple-1 with original box signed by Steve Wozniak sold for $736,862 at auction
The Apple-1 computer was restored to its original, operational state in September 2020 by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen.
BOSTON, MASS
.- An Apple-1 computer with its exceedingly rare original box, signed by designer Steve Wozniak sold for $736,862, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The Apple-1 was originally conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve Woz Wozniak as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists, their initial market being Palo Altos Home-brew Computer Club. Wozniak alone designed the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system for the computer, and he first demonstrated the Apple-1 at a club meeting in July 1976. Upon seeing interest among the membership, he and Jobs pooled their resources to have the boards produced. They originally hoped to sell 50 of them at $40 per board to recover their initial $1000 outlay. However, seeking a larger aud