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"  (Photo Credit: Christie&amp;#039;s) Are you in the market for a new Mac? An original Apple-1 computer built and sold out of Steve Jobs&amp;#039; parents&amp;#039; garage will be auctioned off by Christie&amp;#039;s on December 11, and it&amp;#039;s estimated to sell at $400,000-600,000, the highest estimate yet for an original Apple-1 offered at auction, according to Christie&amp;#039;s. (An Apple 1 has sold for more than $900,000 at auction, but its initial estimate was lower.) Built in 1976, the Apple 1 was the brainchild of Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak, and ultimately solidified the duo as pioneers of home computing. Sold directly out of the garage to a man named Charles Ricketts, this one in particular, named simply, &amp;#039;The Ricketts,&amp;#039; comes complete with the original check for $600 made out to &amp;quot;Apple Computer.&amp;quot; Ricketts later labeled the check as &amp;quot;Purchased July 1976 from Steve Jobs in his parents&amp;#039; garage in Los Altos.&amp;quot; The machine is being sold by Bob Luther, an American collector who purchased it at a storage locker auction in Virginia 10 years ago. At least 61 Apple-1 computers are believed to exist today, and only six, including The Ricketts, are believed to be functioning.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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