An Apple-1 That Still Runs, Carrying Wozniak's Signature, Goes to Bonhams

Bonhams is offering an Apple-1 that still works, and it bears Steve Wozniak's signature. The house has put the computer's potential result at as much as $800,000. By Bonhams' count, under 75 authenticated Apple-1 machines survive, and only some of those can still be switched on and run. That is why the machine matters to collectors. Most early computers survive, when they survive at all, as objects to look at. This one is still a working instrument. The signature ties it to a single name, and the fact that it runs ties it to how it was meant to be used. For a reader who follows what changes hands, a known number of survivors helps set a price. A smaller group within that number, the ones that still work, can set it again.

With reporting from ARTnews.