Apple 1 Sells for $387,750: Is There One in Your Garage?

Written by L.A. Chung

Apple has given some incentive for you to clean out your garages—or offer to clean those of your relatives: Christie's auction house on Tuesday concluded its 16-day auction of vintage Apple products that are not destined for the e-waste bin.

The Huffington Post reported that Christie's sold 10 old Apple computers and accessories, and they fetched some very pretty figures. One included the homely—but valuable—Apple 1.

This Apple 1, one of 200 personal computers that was one of the first computers that Apple ever made, was designed, hand-built and signed by Steve Wozniak in Jobs' parents' Crist Drive Los Altos home, beginning in 1976. It was sold for $387,750. Definitely not the highest price for a working Apple 1, according to ComputerWorld, but it's a piece of computer history, and accordingly the computer owned by Sacramento psychologist Ted Perry was displayed at Mountain View's Computer History Museum. Another is at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.