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Jobs and Wozniak's 1976 Apple 1 motherboard sold at auction for $905,000

"The condition is unlike the other Apple-1 computers that have come up for sale before," says tech enthusiast.

By Matt Bradwell
An original and working Apple computer is on display when Bonhams auction house holds a "History of Science" sale in New York City on October 22, 2014. The historic Working Apple-1 Computer Sold for a record $905,000. UPI/Dennis Van Tine
1 of 6 | An original and working Apple computer is on display when Bonhams auction house holds a "History of Science" sale in New York City on October 22, 2014. The historic Working Apple-1 Computer Sold for a record $905,000. UPI/Dennis Van Tine | License Photo

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A working 1976 Apple-1 computer, one of the first ever built by tech pioneers Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, sold for $750,000 at Bonhams' History of Science auction in New York Wednesday, with the total value of the sale coming to $905,000 after auction house premiums.

The hand-built motherboard, believed to be one of the first 50 assembled by Wozniak and Jobs for the original production order, was expected to sell for between $300,000 and $500,000, but ended up nearly doubling in value.

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One of the key selling points of this particular first-run Apple-1 was it had undergone no modifications or damage repair and was still in working condition -- a trifecta of factors that have not been simultaneously true about Apple-1's sold in the recent past.

"This is one of the best examples of a working early Apple-1 board that I have seen," Apple-1 enthusiast Corey Cohen told CBS news.

Cohen took the device for a test run in August, saying, "The condition is unlike the other Apple-1 computers that have come up for sale before."

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