One of the two surviving Apple Macintosh prototypes will be auctioned in the United States.
Model #M0001 was released in 1983 and is the first prototype of the computer. It uses Apple’s proprietary 5.25-inch Twiggy floppy drive. Apple Law abandoned it, and the final version of the Macintosh replaced it with a 3.5-inch floppy drive.
In 2019, this computer was sold at Bonhams auction for $150 thousand, setting a record as the world’s most expensive Macintosh. The record has not yet been broken, but perhaps it will sell for more at the second auction.
The value of this copy includes the fact that Steve Jobs ordered the destruction of both prototypes due to the fact that the drive was not working properly.
But the developers of the MacWrite word processing program saved it, and 30 years after the Macintosh was released, Steve Wozniak helped restore it to work. [New Atlas]
Source: Iphones RU
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