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Steve Jobs’ Apple-1 Prototype Anticipated to Fetch $500,000 at Public sale



A landmark piece of computing historical past popped up in a web-based public sale earlier this week. On the market as Lot #5006 (opens in new tab) on RR Auctions is a prototype Apple Laptop A, claimed to have been assembled by nonother than Steve Wozniak and owned by Steve Jobs. If that isn’t a tremendous sufficient pedigree to excite bidders, there may be photographic proof that that is the manufacturing prototype for the Apple 1 and was instrumental in securing Apple’s first ‘large’ order; promoting 50 pre-assembled Apple 1s to The Byte Store in Mountain View, California. Bidding for the PCB pictured above and under is at $278,005 on the time of writing and is anticipated to exceed $500,000 by the public sale’s finish (August 19).

The PCB wasn’t taken care of fastidiously by proprietor Steve Jobs. After securing the landmark order, it’s thought to have been forged apart on the Apple Storage for a number of years earlier than Jobs gifted it to the present proprietor roughly 30 years in the past.

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