Famous Apple-1 up for auction

July 21, 2022

In July 1976, Steve Wozniak demonstrated a computer that he designed and hand-built at the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, California.

Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of manufacturing the rudimentary machine and selling it to customers. Together they co-founded the Apple Computer Company, and started cranking out computers in Jobs' parents' garage in Palo Alto.

One of their first customers was Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in nearby Mountain View, who agreed to buy 50 preassembled machines.

Now the Apple-1 that Jobs used to demo the machine to Terrell is up for auction.

There are a few caveats about the machine, but it's a consequential computer.

The meeting between Jobs and Terrell made Apple into a real company, not a pair of hobbyists tinkering in a garage.

Wozniak later said, “That was the biggest single episode in all of the company’s history. Nothing in subsequent years was so great and so unexpected.”

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

In 1976, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demonstrated a prototype Apple-1 computer to the owner of The Byte Shop. That lead to a deal that launched Apple on its path to success. That prototype is now up for auction. It’s expected to sell for $500,000 or more.

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One more thing ...

"When we create stuff, we do it because we listen to customers, get their inputs and also throw in what we'd like to see, too. We cook up new products. You never really know if people will love them as much as you do. The most exciting thing is you have butterflies in your stomach in the days leading up to these events. To learn people love it as much as you do is a relief and also really exciting." -- Steve Jobs

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