Apple-1
sells at auction for £240,000, makes iPad seem cheap
The
original Apple-1 has sold at auction for a whopping $374,500 -- that's
equivalent to a cool £238,269.
The
computer, made in 1976 by the late Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, lacks a
keyboard, monitor, keyboard, or a case, CNN reports. It's just a motherboard
really. But it still works, which is pretty amazing. It makes me wonder why
every iMac I've ever owned dies after about two years.
Auction
house Sotheby's sold the Apple-1 yesterday in New York. It more than doubled
the predicted price of $180,000 after a furious bidding war broke out between
two potential buyers. An anonymous telephone bidder was the eventual winner.
Apple
founders Jobs and Wozniak built the device in 1976 and attracted the attention
of Silicon Valley store chain Byte Shop, who ordered 50 of them for $500 each.
Jobs and Wozniak put together the order in just 30 days. Sotheby's touted it as
"the start of the personal computing revolution."
read more:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/desktops/apple-1-sells-at-auction-for-240000-makes-ipad-seem-cheap-50008284/
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