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A historic computer prototype that once belonged to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs is listed for auction.
The 1976 prototype – named Apple 1 – was sold by co-founder Steve Wozniak, according to RR Auction – a Boston-based auction house.
Jobs reportedly presented the Apple 1 to Paul Terrell, the world’s first personal computer retail shop owner.
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The demonstration of the Apple 1 is said to have taken place at Terrell’s computer store called The Byte Shop, in Mountain View, California, and the demo led Terrell to request a fully assembled computer that would later sell for $666.66. .
Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs led the company on-and-off from 1975 to 2011. | Getty Images
Eventually, Terrell submitted a purchase order for 50 Apple 1 computers.
“It was the biggest stage in all of the company’s history,” said Wozniak, the computer engineer who designed the Apple 1 and Apple 2.
“None of the following years have been better and more unexpected,” he told RR Auction.
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Apple has become a multibillion-dollar tech company with a $2.47 trillion market cap.
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The current owner of the Apple 1 prototype has not been named, but RR Auction reports that an anonymous seller acquired it from Jobs about 30 years ago.
RR Auction said the prototype was sold with a “unique ‘Apple Computer A’ printed circuit board” and was paired with Polaroid photos taken by Terrell in the 1970s.
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“The current state of the board lends some insight into Jobs’ judgment in this regard: he saw the prototype not as something to keep, but something that needed to be changed,” the auction house wrote in the listing of the products. this. “Some of the ICs were removed from their sockets, as well as the microprocessor and other components, presumably for use in early production Apple 1 Computers.”
Although the prototype is missing pieces and has visible cracks on the top right side, RR Auction says that the new owner of the computer can recreate the components based on the photo taken by Terrell.
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The auction for the prototype will close on Thursday, August 18, at 7 pm EST.
RR Auction estimates the prototype is worth $500,000. So far, 15 bids have been placed.
The Apple 1 prototype has experienced light wear and tear over the past five decades. (Photo courtesy of RR Auction / Fox News)
“There would be no Apple 1 without this prototype board — it’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,” Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auction, said in an email to FOX Business.
On Monday, July 25, the top bid was $278,005.
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RR Auction spoke highly of the Apple 1 last June on an episode of Fox Nation’s “Selling History.”
