“On May 20, Auction Team Breker will sell one of just eight known working Apple I computers in existence,” Andrew Cunningham reports for Ars Technica.
“Breker estimates that the computer will sell for between $190,000 and $320,000, which is in line with the sale prices of most Apple I computers in recent years—outliers include a prototype model that sold for $815,000 in August of last year and a model from early in the computer’s production run that sold for $905,000 in late 2014,” Cunningham reports. “Given the original $666.66 sale price (about $2,800 in today’s dollars), any of those prices would be a pretty solid return on your investment.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good luck, bidders!
SEE ALSO:
Rare Apple 1 goes for $815,000 in auction – August 26, 2016
Rare Apple 1 with original first manual written by Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne up for auction – October 19, 2015
Woman unwittingly drops off $200,000 Apple 1 at recycling center – May 31, 2015
Fully-operational Apple 1, sold sold directly by Steve Jobs, could fetch $600,000 at December auction – November 3, 2014
Apple 1 computer sells for $905,000 at auction – October 22, 2014
Apple 1 computer sells for $387,000 in Christie’s auction – July 9, 2013
Original Apple 1 computer sells for $374,500 in auction – June 15, 2012
The price for Apple memorabilia increases as sentimentality for Steve Jobs increases and dissatisfaction for Tim Cook increases. It’s only natural.
That’s the thing about collectibles and possessions, you only get to have them while you’re alive, then they pass on to something else still living.
I have a working Apple 2…it is worth anything at all?
Soon the Mac Pro will be for auction too .
It is an old machine already , just wait for a couple of years more and will be ripe for Sotheby’s.
Some people claim that Apple products are overpriced, but they certainly hold their value very well.