Check signed by Steve Jobs 11,128 days before the iPhone was announced is sold at auction،
Guess me this Batman. When is a check for $4.01 worth $46,043? When the check was written and signed on July 23, 1976 by the late Steve Jobs and drawn on Apple Computer Company's corporate account at Wells Fargo Bank, that's when. It was written at Radio Shack (for the batteries, we bet). The check, as noted, fetched 11,482 times the amount for which it was issued at the autograph and artifact auction.
owned by RR Auction from November 17 to December 6.
The check was written more than four years before Jobs, Wozniak and others became millionaires when Apple went public on December 12, 1980. The stock has split five times since the IPO, meaning those lucky enough to have purchased the stock on that date paid. the equivalent of 10 cents per share for the stock.
Speaking of money, if the bidding for the check was too rich for your blood, two items signed by Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne (the third partner in the founding of Apple who left the company 12 days later ) were sold at auction as a single lot. The lot contained a replica of the Apple-I manual and a photo of the Apple II. Expected over $200, the lot was sold for $491.
Signed by the late Steve Jobs, this 1976 check fetched $46,043 at auction
A first-generation 8GB
iPhone, still sealed in the box, cost $10,456. The reason it didn't attract a higher bid like the record $158,644 an OG iPhone went for last summer is due to the amount of storage the unit has. The 4GB model, as the one that set the world record for a first generation iPhone sold at auction, is the rarest model of all as it was only available from June 29 to September 4, 2007. At this time Last date, Apple stopped selling the 4GB variant and reduced the price of the 8GB model to the old 4GB price of $399 instead of $599.
A first-generation 8GB iPhone sold for $10,456
By the way, according to RR Auction, without Radio Shack, there might never have been an Apple and there might never have been an iPhone. Steve Wozniak used Radio Shack's TRS-80 microcomputer to help him build the blue box he sold to consumers to help them make free long-distance calls illegally. Wozniak and Steve Jobsfor the first time, were partners in this venture (much like the first time John Lennon met Paul McCartney) and the duo sold 200 boxes at $150 each.
Today, Apple is once again a $3 trillion company, and Radio Shack's intellectual property was sold this year to a company called Unicomer Group.
