Apple's most expensive product comes with just a 1 megahertz processor, 4 kilobytes of memory, and most certainly won't fit in your pocket, but the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, was nonetheless willing to pay $905,000 for the Apple-1 computer.

The functioning vintage machine was up for auction in New York, where it fetched almost double of auctioneer Bonhams's high-end estimate, according to Computerworld. The Apple-1 is reportedly considered "the first pre-assembled personal computer, although it lacked such amenities as power supply, keyboard or display," not to mention a casing of any kind.

The unit was hand-built by legendary Apple co-founder (and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant) Steve Wozniak in 1976. Optional accessories for the Apple Computer, retroactively called the Apple-1, included "a keyboard, a power supply in a small wooden case, two vintage cassette tape decks ... an old monitor and various documents," noted Computerworld.

"Only 64 of the originally produced 200 Apple-1 computers are known to exist - with 15 of this group known to be operational," the Henry Ford Museum said in a statement.

The institution collects and displays antique machinery, pop culture items, cars, locomotives and planes, among other items.

"We're currently working with Bonhams regarding bringing the Apple-1 computer to its new home inside (the museum)," the statement continued, adding that details on when the computer would be put on permanent display were forthcoming.

"To have this Apple-1 is very important because our collection focuses on innovation, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, which are great American traditions," Patricia Mooradian told FoxNews.com.

Mooradian heads The Henry Ford, the museum complex that includes the Henry Ford Museum.

Bonhams said that the machine's previous owner was John Anderson, the founder of an Apple user group in Cincinnati. He bought the computer in 1980, back when the introductory price for an Apple-1 was $666.66.

Others who were invested in Apple in the pre-iPhone days have reaped great benefits, as well. In 2012, buyers paid $374,500 and $640,000, respectively, for two other Apple-1 machines.

Even more pricey than any Apple computers from the company's founding era: the original founding contract for Apple, Inc., which sold for $1.6 million in 2011.

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