One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc’s first pre-assembled computer, Apple-1, sold for $905,000 at an auction in New York on Wednesday, far outstripping expectations.<\/p>\n
The relic, which sparked a revolution in home computing, is thought to be one of the first batch of 50 Apple-1 machines assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steve Job’s family garage in Los Altos, California in the summer of 1976.<\/p>\n
Auction house Bonhams had said it expected to sell the machine, which was working as of September, for between $300,000 and $500,000.<\/p>\n
The buyer was The Henry Ford organization, which plans to display the computer in its museum in Dearborn, Michigan.<\/p>\n
“The Apple-1 was not only innovative, but it is a key artifact in the foundation of the digital revolution,” Henry Ford President Patricia Mooradian said in a statement.<\/p>\n
There were few buyers for the first Apples until Paul Terrell, owner of electronics retailer Byte Shop, placed an order for 50 and sold them for $666.66 each.<\/p>\n
After that initial success, Jobs and Wozniak produced another 150 and sold them to friends and other vendors.<\/p>\n
Previously, a working Apple-I was sold by Sotheby’s auction house in 2012 for $374,500.<\/p>\n
Fewer than 50 original Apple-1s are believed to survive.<\/p>\n
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