An Apple-1 from 1976 sold 365,000 dollars at auction

An Apple-1 from 1976 was sold for 365,000 dollars on December 11 at a at the Rockefeller Center in New York. Fully operational, it is the only existing model presented as having been sold by Steve Jobs there forty years in his parents' garage in Los Altos, California.

Considered the ancestor of the personal computer, the Apple-1 is the first model sold by Apple in its infancy and the first computer preassembled have been marketed in the 1970s exist in still in circulation of the 200 by the mark.

Christie's house, originally from the sale, estimated this rare piece between 400 000 and 600 000 dollars. She was eventually sold well below estimates. Another model, assembled by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, was nevertheless sold at the Henry Ford Museum by Bonhams in October.

July 21, 1976, Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, had sold this Apple-1 from the garage of his parents Charles Ricketts for the sum of 600 euros. Having changed hands, it was acquired in 2004 by Bob Luther, the current dealer, who had purchased for 7600 dollars. The identity of the new owner of the machine, sold by telephone, is not known.