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Today we are talking about a new auction, specifically a manual for Apple-1, considered extremely rare, dating from 1976 and being auctioned through RR Auction's Boston headquarters. This manual, which It consists of 12 pages, it could reach 10.000 dollars.
The operating manual for the 1 Apple-1976, which goes up for auction in a few hours, consists of 12 pages. It shows us the original Apple logo on the cover, designed by Apple's third co-founder Ron Wayne and shows Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with an apple hanging over his head.
Inside the manual, we find information on how to start the device, how to use the system monitor, as well as an impressive drop-down diagram of the Apple-1. The Apple-1 was designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with an open circuit board to be sold as a kit for electronics hobbyists.
This model was put on sale at The Byte Shop, one of the first personal computer stores in the world and managed by Paul Terrell, who bought 50 assembled Apple-1s (not just the circuit), thus becoming one of the first personal computers that did not require assembly by the end user.
For the next 10 months, Jobs and Wozniak they assembled about 200 Apple-1s and sold 175 of them. In 2018, RR Auction sold an original Apple-1 for $ 375.000. The auction will take place at 7:00 PM Boston time and you can access it through this direct link.