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It was discontinued a year later and Jobs left the firm.ġ987: Apple released the Macintosh II, the first colour Mac.ġ997: Apple announces it will acquire NeXT software in a $400 million deal that involves Jobs returning to Apple as interim CEO.

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Wozniak is pictured leftġ976: Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on Apas they set about selling computer kits to hobbyists, each of which was built by Wozniak.ġ977: Apple released the Apple II in June, which was the first PC made for the mass market.ġ984: The Macintosh was introduced during an ad break for the Super Bowl and later officially unveiled during a launch event.

The company's journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley.
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In August, an Apple 1 motherboard - complete with an original user's manual - went up for auction for $450,000. In February, an Apple-1 with a wooden case sold for over $1 million on eBay. Several Apple 1s have gone up for auction in recent memory and sold for huge sums. 'I thought, 'I'm going to just ask about this to some other colleagues.' They were the ones that really almost fell over when they heard that we have this opportunity,' she added. 'But I was intrigued enough by the sounds of it, the first Apple computer.' 'At first I really wasn't sure what it even was,' Valentino told the Times. One client of an anonymous wealth advisor said they had a computer they kept for 40 years and the rest is history. The unit was in the student's possession until Noelle Valentino, John Moran's department manager trusts and estates, gave a talk to financial advisors to see if any of their clients had hidden treasures. 'We can pretty much track it back to the original professor who owned it.' 'It has all the pieces and it has some really good provenance,' Cohen explained to the news outlet. Koa wood is now an expensive commodity, selling for as much as $50 per board foot, and there are only a handful of Apple-1s with cases, Cohen explained. Most Apple-1s were not sold with cases, potentially making this particular computer more valuable. Only 60 of them are still in existence and approximately 20 of them are in working order, Cohen added.
