If you think modern Apple computers are expensive, prepare to have your mind blown. During a 16-day online auction that ended on Tuesday, Christie's sold 10 old Apple computers and accessories, and they...fetched some outrageous prices.
Apple-1 Personal
Computer: $387,750
This particular machine was one of the first computers that Apple ever made, a real piece of history. Jobs and Wozniak designed and hand-built around 200 of these computers in Jobs' parents' garage, beginning in 1976. It was Apple's first product.
Christie's Apple-1, purchased by the Italian "collector club" Bolaffi, is signed by Wozniak and comes with a few extra items, including a signed photo of the two co-founders. Bolaffi auctions off collectables like coins and stamps, does appraisals of collectables and sells collectors' accessories like binders.
A working Apple-1 sold at auction in Germany for $671,400 in May of this year, so this price is actually low by comparison. Another is on display at the Smithsonian.
Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/apple-auction-christies_n_3572903.html?1373479288
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