Apple Collectibles Fetch Big Money at Sotheby's Auction

16.06.2012 [14:33]
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Baku, June 16 (AZERTAC). Being an Apple collector is starting to become quite expensive. Storied auction house Sotheby's announced today that an Apple 1, the computer that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built to start Apple Computers back in in 1976, sold for a record $374,500.

There are only 50 Apple 1s still in existence. An Italian collector paid $212,000 for one that came with a signed letter from Steve Jobs in 2010.

The memo was originally expected to gain about $15,000 and the Apple I sold for twice the price Sotheby’s believed it was valued at. Apple reportedly only created 200 Apple I devices, which were sold for just $666.66 when they first hit the market. Only 50 Apple I motherboards are said remain in the world, noting that the motherboard was hand-made by Steve Wozniak.

In the same Friday auction, another buyer bought a handwritten letter by Steve Jobs while he was working at Atari for $27,500.

Apple Collectibles Fetch Big Money at Sotheby's Auction

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