The first Apple device that Jobs used will go up for sale for at least $500,000
The visionary inventor of the firm with the bitten apple, Steve Jobs, owned Apple’s original personal computer, known as Apple-1, which was placed up for auction at Christie’s in New York on July 19.
The goal of the organizers is to sell this cult item, which consists of a keyboard built into a casing and a cubic screen like a TV, for between $500,000 and $800,000.
They tout it as «the first computer that was sold to the public with its motherboard perfectly assembled.»
The Apple-1, which first went on sale in 1976, is part of the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, who treasured a number of objects – computer or space exploration – that Christie’s defines as «artifacts that defined an era and pushed the boundaries of human ingenuity.»
It also includes the first computer Allen and Bill Gates used together, known as the PDP-10, which consisted of a black cabinet the size of two grown people that leaned against a wall but already allowed for interactive, real-time computing.
