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Rare Check Signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Expected to Fetch $25,000+ at Auction
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You would be surprised. Only thing that really kicks back is if they were to write something that could be different. Even "three thousand four thirty" is still 3430.Technically, it's "THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY." I don't think any bank would've accepted that, but that's just my OCD kicking in.
Still pretty cool to find rare memorabilia stuff like this.
34 hundreds is 3400.
Convert it into a .JPG or .PNG and it'll sell for so much more as an NFT 🤣
Nothing crazy about it. Smart people experience growth in college, but college doesn't make people smart.
Yeah, I was just reading the comments to see if anyone has…. If it were my number, I’d make a habit of answering with “Hello, Apple Computer.”
And take orders for Apple-I’s like I used to for the pizza place people would mis-dial…
It’s showing a number ‘no longer in service’.
[Yes, I was bored and your questioned piqued my curiosity.]
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Up until the early 90's San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley all had the same '415' area code.
'650' is the current area code for South Bay / Silicon Valley.
That number should still work, just dial 650 instead of 415
'650' is the current area code for South Bay / Silicon Valley.
That number should still work, just dial 650 instead of 415
That is one beautiful check. Everything Apple did back then was gorgeous.
I agree with you about the college part, but it's still crazy to start a company in a garage and have it become the biggest company in the world a few decades later.
Kierulff was an electronics distributor that sold components like ICs, capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc.
Side note:
So, I heard a story from a friend that lives down in Boca Raton, Florida. He used to live in New York, and his dentist at the time, was also the same dentist that Jeff Bezos used. Well, apparently one day Jeff Bezos came in for a procedure, and told the dentist that he was going to start the ‘most successful and largest online distribution company in the world’. Apparently the dentist smirked at the idea, and thought he was comical. Well, I don’t think that dentist is laughing anymore given the magnitude of what Amazon is today.
I guess the point is, you can’t determine someone’s success just based off the level of education & experience, it also factors the level of motivation and execution of how they plan on making their ideations successful endeavors. Elon Musk would be another example of that.
Rather it be Steve Jobs or any of the other people I mentioned above, hate or dislike them, it takes brilliant minds to change the world. That’s what they all have in common.
That was my first thought as well.
My second thought, though, was - when was the last time I actually wrote a paper check? Off-hand, I can't tell you where my checkbook even is...
Well it takes more than that. They also draw people in and inspire them to do the impossible.
I'm reminded of the ridiculous scene in Iron Man: "Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!" That's obviously a movie, but still...
I've read a lot of comments about what Jobs & Woz did. Here's an anonymous EE talking about the IWM (the one-chip disk controller): "anyone could have done that." The difference is that they could have done that, but they didn't. And it's easy to say that, it's another thing to actually do it.
As part of a "Steve Jobs Revolution" collection, RR Auction is this week selling off multiple pieces of rare memorabilia related to Jobs, including a check that was signed by both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Dated July 15, 1976, the "Apple Computer Company" check is made out to Kierulff Electronics for $3,430. The check was written in the same month that Wozniak demonstrated the first Apple-1 prototype at the Homebrew Computer Company in Palo Alto, California.
The auction site says that based on the date, the check was likely used to pay for parts used in putting together the second batch of Apple-1 computers. So far, the check has a bid of over $23,000, with the next bid set at $25,000. The auction is set to end on March 17, so it could go for much more.
The check is part of a themed sale that is designed to trace the history of personal computers through documents and objects. There are prototypes and early examples of computer mouses created by Doug Engelbart, Pong prototypes from the collection of its creator Allan Alcorn, and original Apple devices.
Along with the check, RR Auction is selling a yearbook that Jobs signed, photos of Jobs as a college freshman, a Steve Jobs signed Atari job application expected to fetch over $300,000, Steve Jobs business cards, and other signed memorabilia. All of the auctions will end on March 17.
Article Link: Rare Check Signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Expected to Fetch $25,000+ at Auction
I'm VERY curious what did Apple get for giving Kierulff Electronics for $3,430??!
The accomplishments of Jobs is that he left Apple and created another remarkable computer company who revolutionised object orientation, and graphics, etc. He also bought the graphics division of Lucasfilm and made that into Pixar, which was a major breakthrough in the film industry.
It is rare to see people so influential in so many different endeavour's.
Yeah me too, so that makes two of us that are so desperately insecure that we need to muse publicly about buying memorabilia for $25k
So basically it would cover the cost of replacing an iPhone screen . . . barely.