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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, June 02, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- At an auction in Germany, an computer that is said to be one of the first created by Apple was auctioned for $671,400.
The computer is an Apple-1, created in 1976 by electrical engineer Fred Hatfield.
The engineer's relationship to computers is not the normal progression compared to today's workers, and even had him encountering a bold interaction opportunity between himself and
Steve Jobs.
Hatfield is now in his 80s and is living in the southern state of New Orleans. He claims that technology was one of his major interest, as far as he can remember. "I've always been interested in digital machinery. As a kid I used to go to different junk stores and so on, to buy a pinball machine, to rewire it and make it do things like tic-tac-toe."
Naturally, he was one of the first to purchase an Apple-1. But he didn't like it. At all.
"It was capable of doing some calculations and so on, but it was kind of short on necessary things that you needed to actually use it well."
Hatfield initial joined a user group in order to improve the machine and get work finished more efficiently. "It didn't work out too well," he said. So, in 1978, Hatfield went straight to the source."I called Steve Jobs, and discussed his machine with him. I complained to him about it. We had a long discussion. It was an interesting conversation," Hatfield says. "I didn't get anywhere."
Steve Jobs personally wrote to Hatfield, offering him a solution, and even state he would send Hatfield a new Apple-2 if he could send the Apple-1 back with $400. Jobs stipulated that Hatfield could keep the memory chips, however.
Hatfield declined. "I kept the Apple-1. I continued to use it, to decode radio signals."Eventually the Apple-1 ended up in a box. "I had packed it away, and just carried it with me from place to place for many years," Hatfield says. "It was just an old piece of electronics."
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