Apple computer serial number specs serial numbers#

On June 15, 2012, a working unit was sold at auction by Sotheby’s for a record $374,500, more than double the expected price. The computer was brought to Polytechnic University of Turin where it was fixed and used to run the BASIC programming language. However, the high price was due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging, with the return label showing Steve Jobs’ parents’ address, the original Apple Computer Inc ‘headquarters’ being their garage, a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs (answering technical questions about the computer), and the original invoice showing ‘Steven’ as the salesman. In March, 2010, a computer belonging to early Apple Computer engineers Dick and Cliff Huston was sold for 42,766 on eBay and in November 2010, an Apple I computer was sold for £133,250 at Christie’s auction house in London. The same year a unit was sold for $17,480 on eBay. According to the website Vintage Computing and Gaming reported that Apple I computer owner Rick Conte was looking to sell the device and was expecting a price in excess of $15,000 US, in 2008, but he donated the unit to the Maine Personal Computer Museum in 2009. An Apple I computer was sold for $50,000 USD at auction in 1999.

Today, several dozens of Apple I computers have been confirmed to exist (up to one hundred), but less than a dozen of them have been verified to be in working condition.

Apple computer serial number specs serial numbers#

It seems these numbers are inventory control numbers added by the Byte Shop to the batch Apple sold them, but they have often erroneously been described as serial numbers by auction houses and in related press coverage. Other boards have numbers hand-written in black marker on the back these usually appear as “01-00#”.

Several boards have numbered stickers affixed to them, which appear to be inspection stickers from the PCB manufacturer/assembler.

Note that both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have stated that Apple did not assign serial numbers to the Apple l.

This computer is display at the Nexo Computer Museum in Jeju City, South Korea.

On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I computer was sold at auction by Sotheby”s for US$374,500.

A tape-interface was sold separately, but you had to build the case.

The Apple I was sold through several small retailers, and included only the circuit board.

The Apple I computer was introduced at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.

And Wozniak had to sell his HP-65 calculator

To finance the first Apple’s device Steve Jobs sold his VW microbus.

Theses stickers may be inspection stickers from manufacturer/assembler. Several remaining units however have numbered stickers affixed to them. Serial Numbers: Apple did not assign serial numbers to its first computer.