38-year-old Apple-1 computer fetches $905k in auction

A 38-year-old Apple-1 personal computer – still in working condition despite its age – fetched a whopping $905,000 (P40,525,900) in an auction.

The Ford Foundation bought the computer made by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and plans to display it in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, auction house Bonhams reported.

"In addition to the beautifully intact motherboard, this Apple-1 comes with a vintage keyboard with pre-7400 series military spec chips, a vintage Sanyo monitor, a custom vintage power supply in wooden box, as well as two vintage tape-decks," Bonhams said

Bundled in as well were the Cincinnati AppleSiders' first newsletter "Poke-Apple" from February 1979 and a video of Steve Wozniak's keynote at the 1980 "Applevention."

At the time the Apple I was made, software was stored in cassette tapes.

The auctioned Apple-1 was one of 50 hand-built for the ByteShop by Wozniak at the late co-founder Steve Jobs' garage - "or possibly his sister's bedroom," Bonhams said.

"At the time, only a handful of people could conceive of how a personal computer might be considered useful, let alone desirable. Now, not even 40 years later, it boggles the imagination to think of life without them," it added.

ComputerWorld said the $905,000 price included the final gavel price of $750,000, taxes and auction house Bonhams' commission of $175,000.

It added the $905,000 was almost double the $500,000 high-end estimate of Bonhams for the auctioned Apple-1, the first pre-assembled personal computer.

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