Rare Apple-1 With Steve Jobs Letter Sells for $1.15 Million

The "Hatfield" Apple-1 has sold for $1,148,200 including the buyer's premium, mounting a satellite auction grounds for a commercially sold Apple-1, according to Bonhams.


Two bidders competed for 28 minutes earlier the October 14 auction closed, taking the moving machine beyond its $500,000 to $800,000 estimate.

The instrumentality takes its sanction from archetypal proprietor Fred Hatfield, who complained to Apple astir the deficiency of bundle for the Apple-1. A missive included successful the merchantability contains Steve Jobs' 1978 reply, offering an Apple II motherboard successful speech for the Apple-1 and another $400. Hatfield kept his computer.

He yet sold it privately for $40,000 portion it needed repairs. The purchaser restored it and obtained Steve Wozniak's signature connected the motherboard earlier it set an auction grounds successful 2013. Bonhams lists that earlier merchantability arsenic astir $686,000.

Apple-1 prototypes person fetched much successful the past. The "Celebration" board, which sold for $815,000 successful 2016, sold for $2.75 million successful January 2026.
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