A legendary Apple Computer icon will be sold to the highest bidder this weekend (hint: it's not one of Steve Jobs' turtlenecks). One of the few remaining Apple I machines will soon find a new retirement home, thanks to an online auction conducted by the organizers of the Vintage Computer Festival. Bidding begins Friday at 8 a.m. PST and ends Sunday at 5 p.m. PST.

The Vintage Computer Festival's mission is to "promote the preservation of 'obsolete' computers," and the Apple I certainly qualifies. Steve Wozniak designed it while working at Hewlett-Packard and offered it to the company. HP passed, letting Wozniak and Jobs sow the seeds for a $5.3 billion business. Of the 200 Apple I machines originally assembled by Wozniak and Jobs--and priced at $666.66--only about 50 are believed to still exist.

The machine on the auction block is in working condition--as long as you don't mind gazing extensively at a 9-inch monochrome display. More auction information can be found on the Vintage Computer Festival's Web site at www.vintage.org.