Steve Jobs-made Apple computer from the 1970s may sell at $300,000Aug 27 (AZINS) An original and rare piece of technology is now up for sale.

A fully functioning Apple-1 is being auctioned next month and is one of only 60 or so remaining of the original 200 that were designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 and 1977. The Apple 1 originally sold for about $666. It could get $300,000 or more at auction.

The Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the company in 1976.

The Apple 1 was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Steve Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation, a VW Microbus, for a few hundred dollars, and Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500; however, Wozniak said that Jobs planned to use his bicycle if necessary. It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.

According to reports, it was restored to its original, operational state by Apple expert Corey Cohen. The system was operated without fault for approximately eight hours in a test. It even includes the original keyboard from the 1970s.

On August 15, 1998, Apple launched its first ever iMac range, a new generation of computers marked by ground-breaking design and technological innovation. The iMac's success among tech journalists and the general public contributed to the rebirth of the Apple brand and a return to profitable business for Steve Jobs.

A massive success, the iMac stood out from traditional PCs with its revolutionary design by Jonathan Ive. The enclosure for its 15-inch cathode ray tube housed all the computer's other components, along with a CD-ROM reader. And in a move seen as surprising at the time, Apple decided not to equip the machine with a floppy disk reader.

The first iMac shipped with the Mac OS 8.1 operating system. Under the hood, it had a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 32MB of RAM and a 4GB hard drive.

Above and beyond its esthetic appeal, the iMac was remarkable for its connectivity. Designed with easy Internet access in mind, it was equipped with an internal modem and an ethernet port. It was also equipped with three USB ports, one of which was for a mouse, and will be remembered as the first computer to connect all of its peripherals via USB.

The original iMac G3 was the first model in a longstanding line that is still being marketed. Today's iMacs, however, have nothing in common with the trailblazing machine now much sought after by collectors and museums.