Old Apple-1 computer sells for record $671,400 at auction
Maybe instead of Apple stock, we should all be buying old Apple computers.
On Saturday, a working Apple-1 home computer set a record, selling for $671,400 at the Breker auction house in Germany, according to the New York Times.
That eclipsed the record of $640,000 for an Apple-1 set last November by the same auction house.
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The Apple-1 sold Saturday was hand-assembled by Steve Wozniak in 1976 and is one of just a few of units that still exist. The auction house declined to identify the buyer.
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![Monrovia, CA - November 06: Original Apple-1 "NTI" motherboard and an Apple Cassette Adapter (ACI) in an original ByteShop Apple-1 koa wood case with Datanetics Keyboard Rev D [keyboard dated: Sept 21 1976] partnered with a 1986 Panasonic video monitor [model no. TR-930U; serial no. KA6320206; dated: MAY 1986]. Hand-built Apple-1 displayed for auction at John Moran Auctioneers on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021 in Monrovia, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9649832/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2393x1600+4+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3c%2Fdc%2F63ce0c974dd9852f7e9d0ac5f4cd%2Fla-photos-1staff-868241-me-1106-apple-first-unit-001.IK.JPG)
![Monrovia, CA - November 06: Original Apple-1 "NTI" motherboard and an Apple Cassette Adapter (ACI) in an original ByteShop Apple-1 koa wood case with Datanetics Keyboard Rev D [keyboard dated: Sept 21 1976]. Morgana Blackwelder with Hand-built Apple-1 displayed for auction at John Moran Auctioneers on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021 in Monrovia, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/22a7d9c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2393x1600+4+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fee%2F8c%2Fa8b37d02425890021cfcd2b29c00%2Fla-photos-1staff-868241-me-1106-apple-first-unit-005.IK.JPG)
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