Apple Computer 1970's "Failed" auctioned $ 80 Thousand

Berita Kocar Kacir on

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

LONDON - A place in the London auction house Christie's auction, fails to remove the Apple-1 that have been produced in the era of the 1970s. This is because, the participants agreed when the first offer was set at $ 80 thousand.

Reported by ABCNews, Wednesday (10/10/2012), Apple certainly did not have any issues related to product sales at London auction house Christie's. But it seems that, at $ 80 thousand was considered too expensive for a device that produced the first computer company headquartered in Silicon Valley, United States.

More recently, the London auction house Christie's held an auction original Apple-1 computer that starts with a quote at $ 80 thousand. However, the old-old computer can not find a single buyer who undertakes a set price.

In the event of computer equipment historic auction, the highest bidder can only poured money amounting USD51.155 (32 thousand pounds). "The future is in the hands of the sending computer," said a spokesman for London auction house Christie's to ABC News.

Apple-1 computer devices imported from Joe Copson, a former Apple employee. According to sources from the auction, the computer has a motherboard which is numbered 01-0022, which indicates that a device model 22 ever made. Printed on the circuit board of Apple Computer 1, Palo Alto, CA, 1976.

Site Scotsman wrote, Apple-1 comes with no screen and only has 4KB of memory. First computing device priced at USD666, 66 was performed with no casing, power supply, keyboard or monitor.

Historically, Apple-1 machine is designed and manufactured by hand by one of the founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak. This computer equipment ever created as many as 200 units and began to stop production since October 1977. (FMH)

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