The first personal computer Apple is put up for auction at the Christie's. Initial price - 161 thousand 600 dollars

At the Christie's auction in London, Apple -1 was put up in London - the first computer developed by the founders of Apple with Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976. The starting cost of the lot is from 161 thousand 600 dollars.

Bidding is scheduled for November 23. The description of the lot is presented on the website of the English auction house. The auction organizers hope that the first “apple” computer will leave the hammer at a price of about 250 thousand dollars, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the description of the lot, a model of the Apple-1 computer under the serial number 82 in the original packaging is exhibited at the auction.

The auction lot includes the documentation for the computer and the letter of the then head of Apple Steve Jobs, a fee with the MOS 6502 processor, a printed board of four rows and 18 columns and the keyboard interface, three capacitors, a radiator of the processor air cooling, a cassette tape recorder, 8 kbytes of built -in RAM, video mining and connecting Cables.

The Apple-1 computer, the first Apple product, was developed by the co-founder of the company Steve Vozniak. Apple-1 sales began in 1976 at a price of $ 666.66. Initially, the computer’s motherboard was sold without a case, a power supply, keyboard and monitor.

Before the advent of Apple-1, the user had to have soldering skills in order to collect a motherboard. The concept of Apple-1 was such that the buyer could use the computer, "taking it out of the box."

A total of Apple-1 computers with the MOS 6502 processor with a frequency of 1 MHz and 4 KB RAM with the ability to expand up to 48 KB, about 200 pieces were produced. Then the Jobs and Wozniak Corporation switched to another model - Apple II.

Computers gathered in the garage of the house of Parents of Steve Jobs, as evidenced by the return address on the package.