The News of Apple 1

Steve 'Woz' Wozniak was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, and loved computers. He was relatively poor, but always wanted his own computer to play around with. Being rather intelligent, he had been designing his own computer for years, but never actually got around to making one

The Apple 1 is a part of history having been the design idea of Steve Wozniak, One of the  founders of Apple Inc. Wozniak was the one who not only design but also hand built the device. Little did the Woz and his partner, Sttve Jobs know that was the begining of a multi-billion dollar company.
Of the orginal 200 computers that were created, it is believed that only 25% remain intack. If you look at the first Apple, It would be very hard to tell that it is indeed an Apple computer as it tooks completely different from the designs of today, thought I seem you can say this about a big number of designs by PC makers,

Apple 1 Motherboard:
At present at Christie's, the fine-art auction house headquartered in London, an Apple 1 motherboard sold for $212,267. It was purchased by Marco Boglione, a private Italian collector, who along with acquiring the motherboard, also got the original box, instruction manuals and a signed letter from Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple.
t's a pretty penny to pay for the electronic guts of a personal computer that helped launch the home computer revolution. But this was the mother of all Apple motherboards -- the first completed one.

Apple 1:
Introduced: March 1976
Released: July 1976
Price: US $666.66 w/4K RAM
How many? about 200 total
CPU: MOS 6502, 1.0 MHz
RAM: 4K, 65K max
Display: monochrome
 280 X 192, 40 X 24 text
Keyboard: not included.
Ports: composite video output
 keyboard interface
 one vertical expansion slot
Storage: cassette interface available
OS: firmware in ROM (HEX)
 Apple BASIC on cassette

The Apple 1 was shipped from the garage of Jobs's parents house. Christie's said it did not have data on how many of the devices were sold, but said that in April 1977, the price on the Apple-1 dropped to $475, and it was officially discontinued in October 1977 with the introduction of the Apple-II. The Apple-II was "a major advance with integrated keyboard, sound, a plastic case, and eight internal expansion slots," Christie's said.