The first computer from Apple sold for 400 thousand dollars

At an auction in the USA, the original Apple 1 computer, designed by the co-founders of the technology giant Apple Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976, found a buyer for 400 thousand dollars.

According to the John Moran Auction House, the Apple-1 is one of the few surviving examples of Apple’s first computer in the world in working order. The package on sale included an Apple-1 “NTI” motherboard, an Apple cassette adapter in a koa wooden box, as well as a Datanetics Keyboard Rev D, a 1986 Panasonic video monitor, an Apple-1 connection cable and a power supply.

In addition, the Apple-1 Basic Manual, the Apple-1 Operating Manual, the original MOS 6502 programming manual, and two Apple-1 software cassettes are also included in the package sold.

The computer was designed by Steve Wozniak, assembled and tested by Steve Jobs.

There were only two owners of the Apple-1 available for sale. The auctioneer said that this particular sample was bought by an electronics professor and then sold to a student in 1977.