By Maya Shwayder | June 21 2013 9:59 AM
Cue up your Dr. Evil pinky finger. One of the first ever Apple computers, built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, is going on auction at Christie’s next week, and could fetch up to [Dr. Evil finger] half a million dollars, AP reported Friday.
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Bidding for the Apple 1 computer, which is essentially just a series of memory chips with a keyboard and batteries, begins at $300,000. Another Apple 1 model sold in May in Germany for $671,400. Previous sales have fetched $640,000, and $374,500 at Sotheby’s last year, AP said. The first apple computer was sold in 1976 for $666.66. Today MacBook laptops have a retail price of $1199.00.
The current Apple 1 in question belongs to a resident of Sacramento, Calif. Named Tom Perry, 70, who said he bought his model in either 1979 or 1980 for no money; Perry told the AP he swapped with the original owner for “some other computer equipment.” Perry’s model still has its original motherboard, although the keyboard, monitor, and cassette tape deck were added later.
The computer will be auctioned as part of Christie’s “First Bytes: Iconic Technology from the Twentieth Century” series, which will be conducted from June 24 to July 9. The Apple 1 will go on display on Monday.
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Cue up your Dr. Evil pinky finger. One of the first ever Apple computers, built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, is going on auction at Christie’s next week, and could fetch up to [Dr. Evil finger] half a million dollars, AP reported Friday.
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Josh Gad and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs for the upcoming film 'jOBS.'
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Bidding for the Apple 1 computer, which is essentially just a series of memory chips with a keyboard and batteries, begins at $300,000. Another Apple 1 model sold in May in Germany for $671,400. Previous sales have fetched $640,000, and $374,500 at Sotheby’s last year, AP said. The first apple computer was sold in 1976 for $666.66. Today MacBook laptops have a retail price of $1199.00.
The current Apple 1 in question belongs to a resident of Sacramento, Calif. Named Tom Perry, 70, who said he bought his model in either 1979 or 1980 for no money; Perry told the AP he swapped with the original owner for “some other computer equipment.” Perry’s model still has its original motherboard, although the keyboard, monitor, and cassette tape deck were added later.
The computer will be auctioned as part of Christie’s “First Bytes: Iconic Technology from the Twentieth Century” series, which will be conducted from June 24 to July 9. The Apple 1 will go on display on Monday.
Follow Maya Shwayder on Twitter.