A singular working Apple 1 P.C. - the company's initial product - has been sole at an auction for $374,500 (240,929).
The cost was more than twice Sotheby's high guess and sets a new record is to collector's item.
A memo created by the firm's co-founder Steve Jobs when he worked at Atari sole for $27,500 at the same New York event.
The original guess is to four-page handwritten note was up to $15,000.
Only about 200 Apple 1s were ever created. The computers were hand-built by Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak and originally sole for $666.66 (426) as a entirely fabricated route board.
He after that mentioned he picked a total with a repeating number "because it was only an simpler way to type".
Only about 50 Apple 1s are still believed to be in existence. The auctioned model is a of the really couple of that still works.
Sotheby's mentioned there was a fighting between two parties is to piece which moreover enclosed the original manuals. A set of bids were executed by the auctioneer on interest of an absentee collector, but a write bidder valid more steady and finally clinched the sale.
Their identity has not been revealed.
The Atari memo was created in 1974 and consists of 4 pages detailing the late Steve Jobs' thoughts on how to upgrade its colonnade football diversion World Cup.
He was 19 years aged at the time. The pages add route drawings and diagrams display how the paddle-based diversion could be done more fun to play.
The records are hammered with Mr Jobs' Los Altos home residence and a Buddhist mantra - "gate embankment paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl".
It translates as: "Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always apropos Buddha."
Sotheby's mentioned there had been "at smallest 3 bidders" is to item.
The high sums are the ultimate declaration of urge for memorabilia related to Steve Jobs, who died final October.
Apple's founding papers, featuring Mr Jobs' signature, sole at auction in December for shut to $1.6m.
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