The original Apple-1 was sold as a fully assembled circuit board with 4KB of memory but no case, power supply, keyboard or monitor. Christie's Apple-1 included the machine's original packaging, manuals, cassette interface and basic tape, documentation and a letter from Steve Jobs, but some parts may not have been original, said computer hobbyist and retrocomputing expert .

"The CPU is a Rockwell plastic part, not a MOS [6502] white ceramic part," , identifying what Christie's item description called "a few slightly later additions."

in Computerworld's Macintosh Topic Center.