An operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 will hit the auction block in December, Christie's said on Monday. The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer is running the standard original software program, Microsoft BASIC.

The computer will be sold with the canceled check from the original purchase on July 27, 1976 made out to Apple Computer by Charles Ricketts for $600.

Last month, the Henry Ford organization paid $905,000 at auction for one of the few remaining Apple-1 computers.