Ultra-Rare Apple-1 In Wooden Byte Shop Case Valued At $300K Is Up For Auction

Collectors with deep pockets have yet another opportunity to own a piece of Apple history, this time with an extremely rare Apple-1 computer housed in a wooden Byte Shop case. The nearly 50-year-old system is still fully functional and is expected to fetch at least $300,000 at auction. At the time of this writing, the high bid sits at $144,311. To put it into context, we saw an original Apple-1 prototype sell for $677,196 at auction a few years ago. The record sits at $905,000, which was set back in 2014.

According to RR Auctions where this piece of tech nostalgia resides, only nine Apple-1 systems sporting an original wooden Byte Shop case are believed to still be in existence. Of those, this is the first one that the auction house has listed for sale. Adding to its appeal as a collector's item, the original ...