{"id":15585,"date":"2012-06-16T01:20:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15585"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:26:37","slug":"first-apple-pc-auctioned-for-374000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/15585\/first-apple-pc-auctioned-for-374000\/","title":{"rendered":"First Apple PC auctioned for $374,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare surviving first model of the <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple<\/a> computer &#8212; a stripped down, clunky device that bears no resemblance to today&#8217;s sleek gadgets &#8212; sold for $374,000 at auction in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price was more than double the pre-sale estimate, reflecting a two-way bidding war eventually won by an anonymous telephone bidder, Sotheby&#8217;s said.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple I computer was created by Apple co-founders <a title=\"Steve Wozniak\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/370948-Steve-Wozniak\">Steve Wozniak<\/a> and <a title=\"Steve Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1677-Steve-Jobs\">Steve Jobs<\/a> and sold in 1976 at the birth of Jobs&#8217;s career as the world&#8217;s computer design guru.<\/p>\n<p>The model auctioned in New York is believed to be one of six of the less than 50 surviving that still works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare surviving first model of the Apple computer &#8211; a stripped down, clunky device that bears no resemblance to today&#8217;s sleek gadgets &#8211; sold for $374,000 at auction in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,3187,3188],"class_list":["post-15585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-apple-pc","tag-auction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15585\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}