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Apple Computer Check Signed by Steve Jobs Expected to Fetch More Than $25,000 at Auction
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Ah, right, it’s the same on this one (which auctioned for $107,000 by the way):
Looked too clean to be printed after the fact, but that’s what it is.
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Why so harsh on Radio Shack? Was it because the Chiefs lost on the frozen tundra of Lambeau?
Either they just want to have it and can afford it, or they think it'll appreciate in value, which collectibles often do.
That's a pretty rad design for a check; always like seeing that pseudo-currency look.
Rare CC footage of that day at the shack, writing a post-dated check
If this check looks as good in real life as the scan does, and is authentic, there are dumber things to buy if you have a ton of money burning a hole in your pocket. Think how much money people wasted on pictures of annoyed looking apes.
Pretty neat looking check. I remember Radio Shack. In the 90’s well it was, it was just terrible. And it pretty much was terrible all the way until the end. You could buy like random crap for your computer and phone in them is all I really recall. In the early 90s they actually tried and sold some pretty neat toys.
Funny, I was just thinking how much simpler a time it was... Credit cards weren't as common, and you could only get cash when banks were open, not from machines scattered throughout the city. This probably also made expense tracking easier.
A fool and their money are easily parted.
How the fool gets together with the money in the first place is what I don't understand.
Maybe because we have “fool-er” people giving money to those “fools” you are talking about like crazy. It happens everyday.
Yeah, this is an appalling lack of historical accuracy. I don't know where the author got that quote but it's terrible, and the article should be amended.
There were, as you later mentioned, a whole bunch of options around at the time, mostly S100-based machines like the North Star Horizon, the IMSAI, the Cromemco, the Sol-20, and the original S-100 box, the Altair. There were also many kits around like the KIM-1 though I don't remember those all that well.
It's also a totally stupid claim, that the TRS-80 was used to help make a blue box. WTF would you even use it for? Blue boxes are basically tone generators.
I'm wondering why they were using the Los Altos office, instead of Palo Alto. Now, Wells Fargo is almost everywhere in Northern California.
Imagine with inflation, $4 then is worth about $20 now. Now, I can't imagine why anyone still uses checks for their every day purchases yet some still do.
By that argument, there was nothing particularly special about Apple (or any other company).
Lots of stuff. Components (resistors, capacitors, switches,wire, etc) - batteries - etc. Just check the catalog.
It’s a business expense. If you paid it out of pocket, the business would have to reimburse you… with a check.
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They could have just left it at the fact that Jobs and Woz got tons of parts from there and I believe Jobs worked there briefly as well as a young teenager.
It was the 70s. The only other option was cash. That would have been even more of a hassle. $4 in 1975 was $22 today. Still a small amount but not a complete waste of time.