An original Apple computer hand-built by firm founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago will be auctioned off
The working Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today's elegant chrome-and-glass Macbooks, is estimated to bring up to $600,000 at a California auction.
The "Chaffey College" Apple-1 is one of just 200 produced by Jobs and Wozniak at the outset of the company's voyage from garage start-up to $2 trillion megalith.
The computer is encased in koa wood, a beautifully patinated wood unique to Hawaii, which adds to its rarity. Only a few of the initial 200 were produced in this manner.
Jobs and Wozniak mostly marketed Apple-1s as spare components. According to the auction site, one computer shop that received roughly 50 devices chose to wrap part of them in wood.
"For antique electronics and computer tech enthusiasts, this is kind of the holy grail," Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen told the Los Angeles Times. "That makes it really exciting for a lot of folks."
According to auction house John Moran Auctioneers, the equipment has only had two owners and comes with a 1986 Panasonic video display.
According to the auction house's website, "it was first purchased by an electronics professor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, who then sold it to his student in 1977."
According to the Los Angeles Times, the student, who has not been identified, spent only $650 for it at the time.
A functional Apple-1, which first appeared on the market in 2014, was auctioned off by Bonhams for more than $900,000.
"A lot of people, not just individuals in the tech field, want to know what kind of person collects Apple-1 machines," Cohen said.
Apple rocketed to success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but imploded once Jobs and Wozniak left.
In the late 1990s, the firm was revitalized, and Jobs was reinstated as CEO.
Before his death in 2011, he oversaw the introduction of the iPod and, later, the game-changing iPhone.
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