The
computer was one of just 200 Apple-1 computers marketed by its founders - Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The winner of Saturday's auction was a German engineer
who collects old computers.
Deutsche Welle, 20 May 2017
One of the
earliest Apple-1 computers, still in working condition after 40 years, sold for
$125,000 (110,000 euros) at an auction in Cologne Saturday.
Despite the
extraordinary price, it sold for much less than the expected 180,000-300,000
euros - suggesting that the spike in prices following the death of Apple's
co-founder in 2011 is over.
"From
our point of view we are back at normal levels. Five years after the death of
[Apple co-founder] Steve Jobs the 'hype' has settled back," said Uwe
Breker, who oversaw the auction in Cologne.
Breker's
auction house specializes in selling technical antiques. It was also involved
in a 2013 sale of another Apple-I, which fetched 516,000 euros.
A German
engineer
The model
auctioned off Saturday, whose original owner was a Californian engineer, still
had its receipt, its operating manual and other documents.
"[The
Apple 1] was one of the first opportunities for someone to possess a real
computer. I'd been working with computers for a while but they were huge,"
original owner John J. Dryden, who bought the Apple in 1976, said Friday.
Dryden
admitted that parting with the machine was wrenching, but said the time had
come as he had not used it in a long time.
The
computer was one of around 200 Apple-1 units marketed by Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak, who developed and built it.
bik/jlw (dpa, AFP)
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"...Then there was Steve Jobs. He was a wild card. What he did had little to do with technology, for that would have happened anyway soon enough. Instead, it had to do with the paradigm of the business of music on Earth. He freed it, and the paradigm of how music is obtained and heard will never be the same. However, Steve Jobs did basically one thing for all of you, and then he died. Do you see any kind of connecting of the dots to some of the inventors who come and give you the one thing, then leave? If he had lived, would there be more? Yes, but you’re not ready for it. Consciousness has to support what happens. ...."
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