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Interested in expend your life-time savings on a closely useless desktop computer with4 KB of memory and a 1 MHzprocessor ? You ’re in luck : Christie ’s , a London vendue mansion , said it will auction off a rare Apple-1 data processor between May 16 and May 24 .
The Apple-1 , the first deviceSteve Jobsand Steve Wozniak ever sold , came out in 1976 . About 200 whole were built , according to Christie ’s , but only 80 still live . At the time of their release , these computers deal for $ 666.66 . But Christie ’s calculate this motorcar , which is still in workings order , will trade for between $ 400,000 and $ 650,000 .
This Apple-1 will come with a monitor and keyboard, as well as original user manuals.
Back in 1976 , desktop computers were n’t common , and most oftheir modern usesdidn’t exist . But even then , the Apple-1 had some competitors , such as the Altair 8800 . To the extent the Apple-1 stood out from the inner circle , it was for the relative simpleness of its design and forum . Though it sell without a blind , keyboard , top executive supplying or even a casing , its motherboard was preassembled . That made the Apple-1 a relatively simple project compared with some of the other kits available at the meter , where the motherboard itself require important assembly . [ 19 cracking Modern Thinkers ]
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Originally published onLive skill .
