All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers

[kens]

If you want an Apple I, there is one up for auction right now. Current bid is $109,919 but it will surely go for much more.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/35045050724601...

[bayouborne]

In March of this year, an Apple-1 sold on the same site for 375k usd

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/34999140714600...

[testing22321]

For that amount of money it’s incredible we aren’t seeing fakes…

[kristopolous]

Gotta be honest, if I saw this sitting next to a dumpster I'd probably think "what is this worthless circuitboard doing here." and then I'd take it to properly e-waste it only to later find out:

"That was worth how much!?"

[kens]

That literally happened: a woman dropped off computer junk at an e-waste facility in Milpitas in 2015. The facility found an Apple I in the stuff and sold it for $200,000. They tried unsuccessfully to get in touch with the woman to split the money.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19665632

[stavros]

How much is it worth? I couldn't find any prices on the page.

[ofrzeta]

One of them is owned ("almost verified") by Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple exec, who went on to found Be Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e

[nxobject]

Sadly, this registry might be out of date again: entry #43 indicates it is from the now-dismantled Living Computer Museum + Labs.

https://www.apple1registry.com/en/43.html

[alnwlsn]

Indeed. It sold at auction for $352,800

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-...

[JSR_FDED]

What an amazing labor of love to catalog all these machines. Some of the stories behind each individual machine are amazing.

I remember when Fry's Electronics (was it Palo Alto or Sunnyvale?) had one on display.

[nielsbot]

Man... tangentially, is there a coffee table book about Fry's yet? I remember in the dot com days they had a lounge pianist there as well as a cafeteria? And also, oddly, adult magazines by the check out lines.

[divbzero]

Of the 92 “verified and almost verified” Apple I computers in this registry, 67 are confirmed to be in working condition.

[N19PEDL2]

A few years ago, I attended a test powering on of #41 'Frank Anderson' at the Polytechnic University of Turin. It was a truly exciting and interesting experience.

[mikeytown2]

I don't see prices of previous auctions. What do these go for roughly?

[stephen_g]

One went for $440K in 2022 [1], and one that was an Apple owned unit that came from the "office of Steve Jobs" went for $945K last year [2].

1. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/16/apple-1-sells-for-440k/

2. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6495022

[aquova]

I'm not sure why, but I vaguely expected Woz to have at least one

[ycombinete]

Why is “computer” not pluralised in the page title?

I thought it was a mistake in the post; but it’s the same on the page.

[natebc]

perhaps a German=>English phrasing thing? the editor of that site is German.

https://www.apple1registry.com/en/contact.html

Frankly I'll take it over artificially sandblasted translation via someGPT.

[thenthenthen]

I love the ‘almost verified’ as a category. This just subtly hints to the human/cultural values behind it (documentation, restoration, preservation efforts), not only the hardware or as many comments here speculate on; its value in coins.