A check signed by Steve Jobs four days before he, Steve Wozniak and Ronald G. Wayne filed to start the Apple Computer Company ...

A 1976 Apple-1 computer prototype, once owned by the company's legendary founder Steve Jobs, was sold at an auction for almost $700,000. During the mid-1970s, this computer was used by the company ...

Thankfully, the Apple-1 was selling at a computer hobbyist store where someone could purchase all of those things separately — American consumerism at its finest.

The Byte Shop, a Bay Area computer store, commissioned the nascent company to build 50 Apple-1 units, and upon delivery the owner was “a bit taken aback,” Isaacson wrote.

Jobs and Woz delivered a scrappy-looking Apple-1 computer (which eventually came with a wooden case, keyboard, and power supply) to Terrell in July 1976. It went on sale for $666.66 ($3,573 when ...

The machine was signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and it is in full operational condition. There were around 200 Apple-1 computers produced in 1976, and 175 of those were sold.

The new Apple computer store will open in Ann Arbor's Briarwood Mall Saturday morning at 10 a.m., according to the company's Web site. Grand opening events include a T-shirt giveaway to the first ...