36-Year-Old Apple Computer Sells for $374,500

[steve2470]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/257784/36yearold_apple_computer_sells_for_374500.html



A working vintage Apple-1 computer sold Friday for $374,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York where a memo written by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also went for $27,500. Both went to undisclosed individuals.

The selling price of the Apple-1 was a record for an Apple-1, according to Computerworld. One sold nearly two years ago at a Christie’s auction in London for $213,000. In 2010, one of the vintage computers was sold for $160,000. At its release in 1976, the Apple-1 cost $666.66.

The computer is one of fewer than 50 Apple-I computers believed to still exist; of them, only a half dozen are known to still work.

A “Catalogue Note” on the Sotheby’s website shares some interesting details:

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[citysyde]

1. So do you think I should sell or hold my 25 year old Apple computer for...

$1 or wait for $10,000?

[RC]

2. I have 2 Apple ][ from 1982

And a Apple IIe. All work the last time I fired them up - 15 some tears ago.
If they don't boot, there is a small electrolytic capacitor in the power supply that needs to be replaced.