Items associated with the emergence of Apple, a home computer and video games are up for sale at an auction that ends on March 17. The most important item in the “Steve Jobs Revolution: Engelbart, Atari, and Apple” auction will be a check issued in July 1976 for $3,430 for parts of an Apple 1 computer signed by the founders of “Apple”, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. “This happened before they (Apple) had any investors,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auctions, which will oversee the sale.
He added: “The reason why the two signed it (the check) is the agreement signed between them; Any expenditures in excess of $1,000, the two of them should have agreed, and that is the proof.”
The auction includes many items associated with Jobs, including his high school photos and an application he filled out for a job at Atari, which will be offered as a non-fungible token.
“Steve didn’t sign a lot of things,” said Stephen Levy, a traveling journalist for Wired magazine, which focuses on new technologies. He didn’t like to sign things. So his signature is very rare.”
“It’s actually one of the rarest signatures that collectors are interested in,” he added. So any time something appears with Steve’s signature, it sells for a lot of money.”
