People are bidding over $250,000 for one of Apple's first 50 computers

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In the summer of 1976, two young friends in Northern California agreed to sell 50 computers to a local store for $500 each.

After working for 10 days straight, they pulled it off. That computer went on to be known as the Apple-1, Apple Computer's first product.

Those young men were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. And now, Apple is the most valuable public company in the world. 

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One of the computers they built during that time is now up for auction at Charitybuzz. It's an early Apple-1, and the auctioneers think it might actually be a pre-production version. It's one of perhaps 60 Apple-1 computers still in existence. 

Currently, it's going for $270,000 after three bids. But the auctioneer thinks the one-of-a-kind computer could be worth as much as $1,000,000. 

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