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First Apple Computer, 1976

This was the first computer ever made by Apple Computers Inc. They became one of the fastest growing companies in history, launching a number of innovative and influential computer hardware and software products. Most home computer users in the 1970s were hobbyists who designed and assembled their own machines.

The Apple I, devised in a bedroom by Steve Wozniak, Steven Jobs and Ron Wayne, was a basic circuit board to which enthusiasts would add display units and keyboards. In June, 2012, a rare Apple 1 computer, one of only two hundred built in 1976 by Wozniak and Jobs, sold at auction in New York at Sotheby’s for a whopping $374,500 to an unidentified bidder. Only fifty Apple 1’s are left in existence and only a handful are still working.

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