Apple’s first computer, hand-built by Steve Jobs and Wozniak, costs $400,000. sold in

It is also known as “Chaffee College Apple-1” because its original owner was a professor at Chaffee College. He ended up selling the Apple-1 computer to his student in 1977 so that he could buy the Apple-II computer. The student – who has not been named – only paid $650 for it at the time.

NS Apple-1 Computer About one in 60 units are still in existence and one in 20 is still in operation. The Apple-1 came as a motherboard with the case, keyboard, and monitor sold separately. The model is encased in koa wood—a richly potted wood native to Hawaii. Of the original 200, only a few were built this way.

Jobs and Wozniak sold most of the Apple-1s as component parts. A computer shop taking delivery of about 50 units decided to lock some of them in wood.

Apple enjoyed success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but was founded after the departure of Jobs and Wozniak. NS company became active again in the late 1990s, and Jobs was brought back as chief executive. He oversaw the launch of the iPod and later the iPhone before his death in 2011.