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Headline: Rare And Fully Functional Apple-1 Computer Set To Go To Auction

Caption: **VIDEO AVAILABLE. CONTACT INFO@COVER-IMAGES.COM TO RECEIVE.** Fancy owning a piece of Apple history? An extremely rare fully functional Apple-1 computer is to go to auction. The piece will be auctioned this September by Boston-based RR Auction during its Remarkable Rarities live auction event. The Apple-1 was originally conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists, their initial market being Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club. Seeking a larger audience, Jobs approached Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world. Aiming to elevate the computer beyond the realm of the hobbyist, Terrell agreed to purchase 50 Apple-1 computers, but only if they were fully assembled. The Apple-1 thus became one of the first computers which did not require soldering by the end user. Altogether, over a span of about ten months, Jobs and Wozniak produced about 200 Apple-1 computers and sold 175 of them. The consignor of this Apple-1, a self-described ‘mainframe guy,’ attended one early Homebrew Computer Club meeting to see what it was all about. A year or so later, he purchased this Apple-1 secondhand from a co-worker for $300, and began learning BASIC and writing small programs. Even after outgrowing the system, he held onto it, realizing it could one day be a valuable piece of computing history. In 1982, he attempted to sell this Apple-1 to Steve Wozniak for $10,000—an offer that, fortunately, went unanswered. The later production Shop-style of this Apple-1 is indicated by discrete component dates which match other known Apple-1 boards of similar vintage, assembled and sold by Apple in the fall of 1976 and early 1977. On the left side, the board is marked: Apple Computer 1, Palo Alto, Ca. Copyright 1976. This Apple-1 computer was restored to its original, operational state in June 2018 by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen. A comprehensive, technical condition report prepared by Cohen is available to qualified bidders; he evaluates the current condition of the unit as 8.5/10. The most remarkable aspect of this Apple-1 computer is that it is documented to be fully operational: the system was operated without fault for approximately eight hours in a comprehensive test. Unlike many of the known Apple-1 boards, this unit has not had any modifications to the physical board, and the prototype area is clean and unused. “The Apple-1 was the first in the evolution of products from Apple that would forever change the world we live in,” said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction.“This is the machine that launched Apple Computer, a company that would define an industry and was most recently able to achieve a $1 trillion valuation milestone.” Among items included: original Apple-1 board, original Apple Cassette Interface (ACI), original Apple-1 Operation Manual, two original Apple Cassette Interface manuals, a period surplus ASCII keyboard, a period Sanyo 4205 video monitor, a new period-style power supply with original Apple-1 power cable and connector, and period correct cassette interface cables. The Remarkable Rarities live auction event from RR Auction will take place on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 in Boston, MA. More details can be found online at www.rrauction.com.

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