Apple's First Personal PC Sold for 300 Million Won... "Manufactured in Jobs' Garage"

by Seo Sojeong

Published 26 Aug.2023 12:08(KST)

Updated 26 Aug.2023 12:12(KST)

Apple's First Personal Computer Sold for 300 Million Won [AP Yonhap News]

Apple's first personal computer sold at auction for about 300 million won.

According to US auction house RR Auction on the 25th (local time), the Apple-1, the first personal PC Apple made in the mid-1970s, was sold for more than $223,000 (29.659 million won) on the 24th. This is 334 times the original selling price of $666.

This computer is one of 200 PCs made in 1976 and 1977 in the garage of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs in Los Altos, California.

The product was purchased used by its owner at a computer equipment exhibition held in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1980, and in 2017, Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, signed it as "Woz" at an event held at Bryant University in Rhode Island.

Earlier this year, an Apple expert restored the product to working condition. The identity of the winning bidder has not been disclosed.