The first Apple computer sold for $1 million
A rare instance of 1 party PC Apple-1 was implemented almost a million dollars at auction at Bonhams in new York. The device was assembled by Steve Wozniak in the garage of the family of Steve jobs in the summer of 1976. It has revolutionized the PC market.
Sold Apple PC-1 is in working condition. The identity of the client, they paid rarity on the phone 905 thousand dollars, is not disclosed. The auction house had expected that the device will be taken for 300-500 thousand dollars.
Apple-1 was one of the first PC, which was delivered to the user in a ready form and did not require the skills of an Assembly, in consequence of this device has revolutionized the PC market. 50 PC Steve Wozniak has collected in the summer of 1976 with the support of like-minded people in located in California garage that belonged to the family of 2 developer company Steve jobs.
How can we say the experts, the Apple-1 was used quite a lot of demand. Were later created several hundreds of adaptations of this model. In 1976, the price of each is $ 500, and in 1977 exceeded 666 dollars.
Note that in 2012 with the Sotheby's auction for 374 thousand dollars was realized another comp Apple-1, also were in working condition. They say that around the world there are several instances of this model.
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