Working Apple I sold for $640,000 at German auction
By And you complain that your Mac is pricey well how about paying $640,000 for a working Mac!!!
Last month a working example of Apple’s first computer was sold by German auction house Team Breker for $640,000, this broke the old record from July set by Sotheby’s, who sold a Apple I for $374,500
Source: Auction Team Breker
As noted by Classic Computing, the German sale is the second such high-profile sale for the legacy computer seen in the last two months.
in the past Christie’s put a non-working Apple I motherboard up for auction in the UK, however they were unable to get over the £50,000 reserve price.
In June, a functioning version of the 1976 Apple I motherboard sold for $374,500,
During the same auction a handwritten note by Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, written during his time at Atari, was sold for $27,500.
Only 200 Apple I computers were made, however it is estimated that only 50 example still exist and of these only 6 are in working order. During the the products initial release in 1976 it sold for $666.66 and was delivered without power supply, display, keyboard or housing.
