“Apple 1” the first prototype computer, is worth more than 500 000$

An old computer, probably the first ‘Apple’ computer , now is in sale, and it could be worth more than half a million dollars, just for the fact that it was designed by two college dropouts named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

An ‘apple 1’ dates since 1976, and is the basic pc ever built, not even close of today’s modern technology products, but still is maybe the most expensive ‘apple’ product, with a pre-same estimated value of up to 500 000$.

Vintage Apple products have become especially hot items since Jobs’ death in October 2011, surrounding the mystique attached to this entrepreneur who joined forces with Wozniak to build computer prototypes in a California garage. Another Apple 1 was sold last month for a record $671,400 by a German auction house, breaking a previous record of $640,000 set in November. Sotheby’s sold one last year for $374,500.
 

“This is the seed from which the entire orchard grew, and without this, there would be no Apple,” said Stephen A. Edwards, professor of computer science at Columbia University. “I’ve been shocked auction prices got into the six digits. The market has just gone crazy.” The latest auction at Christie’s, “First Bytes: Iconic Technology from the Twentieth Century,” is being conducted online only from June 24 to July 9. The Apple 1 is to be displayed starting Monday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, west of San Francisco.