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Vintage Apple computer built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak auctioned off for US$400,000.

By on November 11, 2021

A student who chooses to remain anonymous has kept an old rare computer known as “Chaffey College”  Apple-1  named after the original owner who was a professor at Chaffey College in Cucamonga, California sold it to him.

John Moran Auctioneers in Monrovia, California, auctioned off the computer designed, built and tested by Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on Tuesday. It sold for a whopping $400,000.00.

The functioning Apple-1, is one of only 200 made by Jobs and Wozniak at the very start of the company’s odyssey from garage start-up to megalith worth $2 trillion.

Encased in koa wood — a richly patinated wood native to Hawaii, makes it a rare find. Only a handful of the original 200 were made in this way.

While the $400,000 hammer price represents a healthy return on investment for that former student, it is a long way short of the record for such a device.

A working Apple-1 that came to the market in 2014 was sold by Bonhams for more than $900,000.

 

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