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$600 Apple-1 sold from Steve Jobs' garage could fetch $600,000 at auction

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/600-apple-1-sold-steve-jobs-garage-could-fetch-600000-auction' title="$600 Apple-1 sold from Steve Jobs' garage could fetch $600,000 at auction"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2014/11/jobs-Apple-1-auction.jpg?itok=eTEODLII' />[/url]</p> <p>An Apple-1 computer is up for auction, and the rare device could fetch as much as $600,000. Believed to have been one of the few original computers to have been sold from the Cupertino, California garage of Steve Jobs (http://www.imore.com/steve-jobs) in 1976, the computer is still in working order, being able to run Microsoft BASIC and an Apple-1 Star Trek game.</p> <!--break--> <p>The Apple-1 was originally purchased by Charles Ricketts, originally from Los Altos, California, and was later sold to Virginia collector Robert Luther in 2004 from a police auction. Luther says he knows that the computer was one of the few sold by Jobs because he has the canceled check:</p>

<p>I knew it had been sold from the garage of Steve Jobs in July of 1976, because I had the buyer's canceled check. My computer had been purchased directly from Jobs, and based on the buyers address on the check, he lived four miles from Jobs.</p>

<p>The computer was originally sold for $600 based on the amount of the canceled check.</p> <p>Recently, the <a href="www.imore.com/original-apple-1-goes-905000-auction">Henry Ford Museum[/url] paid over $900,000 for an Apple-1.</p> <p>Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/03/us-auction-apple-idUSKBN0IN0ZX20141103); image credit: Reuters</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-28121"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/401ec102/sc/36/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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