The Ricketts Apple-1 pc. UPDATE: IT MADE $365,000
Discovered at a storage locker auction in Virginia the only known surviving Apple-1 documented to have been sold directly by Steve Jobs to an individual from his parents’ garage comes up at Christie’s in New York on December 11. The American cultural icon The Ricketts’ Apple-1 Personal Computer will come up as part of Christie’s inaugural Exceptional Sale at Rockefeller Center. It is named after its first owner Charles Ricketts. The estimate is $400,000 – 600,000, the highest estimate yet for an original Apple-1 offered at auction.
It is fully operational. 23 years after Ricketts bought the Apple-1 from Jobs in Los Altos, it was acquired by Bruce Waldack, a freshly minted entrepreneur who’d just sold his company DigitalNation. The Ricketts Apple-1 was auctioned at a sheriff’s sale of Waldack’s property at a self-storage facility in Virginia in 2004, and won by the present consigner, the American collector, Bob Luther.
UPDATE: IT FELL SHORT OF ITS ESTIMATE TO SELL FOR $365,000.