Why this $500,000 Apple-1 Computer was a bargain [View all]

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One of the first personal computers ever sold – a 1976 Apple-1 – fetched US$500,000 at auction yesterday, but it might well be one of the auction bargains of the year.
The beautifully restored, fully-functioning 1976 computer is one of just six fully-assembled Apple-1 computers sold by Californian computer store, The Byte Shop. It was sold exactly as it appears above, with a Panasonic monitor and Datanetics keyboard in an enclosure of Hawaiian koa wood.

Just 200 Apple-1 computers were produced and around 80 are believed to still exist. By contrast, the Apple-II computer that superseded it sold between five and six million computers over more than a decade and became the first commercially-successful personal computer.