An original and historic handwritten note from Steve Jobs has sold at auction for $175,759.
RR Auction, a Boston-based auction house, shared the news, revealing that the note was a handwritten advertisement for the Apple-1 Computer, penned “entirely by Steve Jobs.”
According to RR Auction, the “historic artifact” is a rough draft spec sheet for the groundbreaking Apple-1, which RR said highlighted Jobs’ “meticulous attention to detail and entrepreneurial foresight.”
The note is signed, “Steven Jobs.”
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The note from Jobs included exclamation points to highlight the powerful technology behind the Apple-1. In an oddly demonic factoid about the Apple-1, it sold for $666.66 upon release.
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RR Auction points out that Jobs cites $75 for the board and manual for the Apple-1, providing a “captivating snapshot of the early days of personal computing and the visionary stance Jobs adopted to make computing accessible to a broad audience.”
The lucky person with the winning bid also received two glossy Polaroid pictures that were taken at The Byte Shop in California, showing a fully assembled Apple-1 computer board with a keyboard and monitor.
A fully operational Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak also sold at this sale for a whopping $223,520.
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