Apple's first computer goes to auction for 260,000 euros

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have created the company's first product, the Apple 1 computer.

Apple may currently be worth more than a trillion dollars, but it all started in a garage in Silicon Valley, California. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have created the company's first product, the Apple 1 computer. Of the 200 made, only about 60 are known. Now, one of these goes on auction for the RR Auction and is expected to be sold by 300 thousand dollars (about 260 thousand euros).

Apple 1, as the auction site RR Auction and the Associated Press announced, has been restored to the "original state" by Corey Cohen, an "expert" on Apple products, the auction said. In addition to the computer, the auction also includes Apple's instruction manual and the original keyboard. According to Cohen, the computer was tested for eight straight hours without system errors.

This Apple-1 was initially sold at The Byte Shop in Silicon Valley, one of the world's first personal computer stores. Altogether this store bought 50 of the 200 computers of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, in the first partnership of the company with retailers. At the time, the Apple 1 was sold for USD 666 (currently, would be around 2500 euros).

As Gizmodo reveals, one of the most impressive details of this Apple 1 is that the computer did not have any modification, something that was common in the years of 1970. In other words, whoever bought it probably wanted a computer that worked badly, complications, one of the current features of Apple.

The first bids for the Apple 1 will begin in September 2018. The 25th of September is the final auction. In November 2014 one of these computers, sold directly by Steve Jobs, was auctioned by Christie's and sold for about 850 thousand euros.