Overview

• The final price reached $475,000 including fees, beating a $300,000 estimate after pre-live bidding had climbed to $144,311.
• RR Auction’s 25% buyer’s premium implies a hammer price of about $380,000.
• The unit is one of roughly nine surviving Byte Shop wooden-case examples from about 50 originally produced.
• It was sold as a complete, working setup with original board, cassette interface, Datanetics keyboard, Triad power supply, period monitor, and cassettes, and it was graded 8/10 by restoration expert Corey Cohen.
• Provenance traces to the estate of June Blodgett Moore, and a comparable wooden-cased Apple-1 realized about $500,000 in 2021, underscoring sustained collector demand.