A vintage Apple-1 personal computer that was sold 38 years ago to a buyer out of Steve Jobs’ garage went for $365,000 today at Christie’s in New York City, thousands under the auction house’s lowest estimate.

The gavel price was just 40% that paid in October by The Henry Ford, a museum in Dearborn, Mich., which wrote a check for $905,000 for a different machine. Previously, Christie’s had forecast today’s Apple-1 would sell for between $400,000 and $600,000.

“It was a little disappointing,” admitted Bob Luther, about the selling price of his Apple-1. “But it was time for me to move on, and it’s good that it’s sold. Owning it has been an incredible experience. And I can’t complain. I’m a big Apple fan and I’m not very diversified in my 401(k) because a very high percentage of it is in Apple stock. And [that Apple stock] has been very good to me.”

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