First collected by Steve Jobs computer was sold at auction for 214,000 dollars
17:22 Ludmila Pashkova
At today's auction in London auction house Christie's put one of the first computers that have garnered Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Personal computer Apple-1 with serial number 82 and 8 KB of RAM, assembled in the garage under, was sold for 133.2 thousand pounds. This is slightly higher than the estimate, which amounted to 100-150 thousand pounds.
The first lots were sold quickly. For example, a list of fixes for Nabokov's first English edition of "Lolita" and that of Pushkin's poems (also notes the writer) went for 3,5 thousand pounds. Portable cryptographic machine "Enigma" has found a buyer for the 67.2 thousand pounds. "Elements" of Euclid in Arabic went for 21,2 thousand
Apple-1, collected in 1976, has a circuit board with four rows of connector, for the cassette drive, keyboard interface, a proprietary software language Proms. At one time, such machines were implemented at a price slightly less than 670 dollars early in the spring of 1977 the cost of computers dropped to 475 dollars, and by the end of 1977, sales have been discontinued. Total has sold approximately two hundred Apple-1.
Presented at the auction computer was made in a wooden case and offered it to the buyer with a complete set of documentation, from which a portion signed by Steve Jobs.
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