Apple computer built in 1976 could fetch $500,000 or more at auction
NEW YORK, N.Y. – One of the first Apple computers ever built goes on the Christie’s auction block next week — and it could sell for half a million dollars, or more.
The Apple 1 from 1976 is a forerunner of today’s MacBooks, iPads and iPhones.
Ted Perry, a retired school psychologist from California who owns the old Apple, has kept it stashed away in a cardboard box.
He says the green piece of plastic covered with memory chips is where the personal computer “revolution” started.
The board was produced by two college dropouts — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It first sold for $666.66.
The Apple 1 will be offered online from June 24 to July 9.
Another Apple 1 was sold last month for a record $671,400 by a German auction house.
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