Rare original Apple I computer built by Jobs and Wozniak and encased in koa wood sells for $400,000

A rare Apple 1, the first model computer ever built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, has sold for auction for $400,000. Known as the'Chaffey College' Apple 1 because it was first owned by a professor at Southern California's Chaffey College, the first-gen computer is encased in koa wood and comes with the original Apple 1 'NTI' motherboard, power regulators, and a blue Sprague 39D capacitor. With the sizable 25 percent buyer's fee, the unnamed winner ended up shelling out a total of $500,000. The 45-year-old computer had been predicted to fetch as much as $600,000 according to John Moran Auctioneers, the firm handling the sale. As part of the lot, the winner also received a 1986 Panasonic video monitor, a Xerox copy of the Apple-1 Basic manual, the operations guide and a MOS 6502 programming manual.