Bay Area bidder buys rare Apple-1 computer at auction for nearly $700K

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Bay Area bidder buys rare Apple-1 computer at auction for nearly $700K
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The device, which appears to be built by Steve Wozniak, was used by Steve Jobs to woo a pioneering retailer at a Mountain View computer shop in 1976.

BOSTON — An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000., “a leading expert and the auction house say the device — a broken circuit board apparently crammed in a drawer for years — is a rare Wozniak-built computer that Steve Jobs, Apple’s other co-founder, used to woo a pioneering retailer at a Mountain View computer shop in a seminal tech-industry moment in 1976.

A Bay Area collector who wishes to remain anonymous made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, the auctioneer said.,” said Bobby Livingston, RR Auction’s executive vice president.

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