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An original Apple
computer sold by Steve Jobs out of his parents’
garage in 1976 for $600 is
going on the auction block and could fetch $500,000 or more on the auction
block in New York.
The
Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer is the only surviving Apple 1 that’s
documented to have been sold by the tech icon Jobs himself, according to
Christie’s auction house.
Jobs
was 21 and living with his parents in Los Altos, Calif., when he launched the
tech revolution.
All
iPhones and other Apple devices can trace their technological DNA to this
machine, which goes under the hammer Dec. 11, according to Andrew McVinish,
Christie’s director of decorative arts.
“When
you see a child playing with an iPad or iPhone, not too many people know that
it all started with the Apple-1,” he said. “So to be able to own a machine that
started the digital revolution is a very powerful attraction.”
The
machine belongs to Robert Luther, a Virginia collector who bought it in 2004,
at a police auction of storage locker goods. Luther had no idea he was buying a
tech
treasure.
“I
knew it had been sold from the garage of Steve Jobs in July of 1976, because I
had the buyer’s canceled check,” Luther wrote for a Kickstarter campaign to
write a book about his experience. “My computer had been purchased directly
from Jobs, and based on the buyers address on the check, he lived four miles
from Jobs.”
Source:nypost.com
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