A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction.
The Apple-1 set in motion the corporate that in June became the primary publicly traded business to shut a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, in accordance with RR Auction in Boston.
The pc has been restored to a completely operational state and comes with a custom-built case with a built-in keyboard, the agency said.
The pc, which originally sold for about $666, is anticipated to sell for about $200,000 at an auction that runs through Aug. 24.
An Apple-1 prototype sold last 12 months for nearly $700,000.
About 200 were manufactured in Steve Jobs’s garage in Los Altos, California, in 1976 and 1977 and about 175 of them were sold, RR’s Executive Vice President Bobby Livingston said.
“It’s the legendary computer that launched Apple,” he said.
Jobs approached Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, Calif., and he agreed to purchase 50 Apple-1 computers, but only in the event that they were fully assembled, in accordance with RR Auction.
The Apple-1 thus became considered one of the primary personal computers that didn’t require soldering by the purchaser, RR said, even though it didn’t include an influence supply, case, keyboard, or monitor.
It was followed by the introduction of the Apple-2 in 1977, which revolutionized the non-public computing industry.
The Apple-1 up for auction was signed “Woz” by Wozniak at an event at Bryant University in 2017. The signature “adds to the desirability,” Livingston said.
It was acquired and utilized by the owner in 1980 at a pc hobbyist show in Framingham, Mass., and was used throughout the Nineteen Eighties. It was delivered to an operational state earlier this 12 months by Apple expert Corey Cohen, the auction house said.
The auction also includes Apple company check No. 2 signed by Jobs and Wozniak and dated March 19, 1976.
The check for $116.97 was made out to Ramlor Inc., a circuit board maker, and experts think it was likely linked to the production of the primary Apple-1 computers, RR Auction said. The check was expected to sell for $50,000 but early bidding has already surpassed that.
