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A rare Apple Macintosh prototype is returning to auction

You could own a piece of personal computing history.

Apple eventually opted to use a new 3.5-inch disk drive design from Sony, and Steve Jobs reportedly ordered all of the Macintosh Twiggy prototypes to be destroyed — but not all of them were. This specific Twiggy Macintosh originally came from the developers of the word processor MacWrite and was one of two prototypes restored to working order in 2014. Other lots available through the Bonhams History of Science and Technology auction, which runs from October 13th to the 23rd, include a specimen of original penicillin mold in a medallion inscribed by Alexander Fleming and a Blue Box device from 1972, based on a design by Steve Wozniak, that could be used to hack telephone systems.

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