Steve jobs memorabilia is highly popular and sought after, and new items are up for auction soon, including a handwritten note the late Apple co-founder penned during his brief stay at Atari.
Sotheby's has listed a four-page, handwritten manuscript from then 19-years-old Steve Jobs, addressed to his supervisor Stephen Bristow. The auction house expects the memorabilia to fetch between $10,000 and $15,000.
Description
"The present report, written for his supervisor Stephen Bristow, was meant to improve the functionality and fun of World Cup, a coin arcade-game with four simple buttons and an evolution from Atari's Pong game," according to Sotheby's. "Jobs' report is stamped 'All-One Farm Design,' a name appropriated from the commune he frequented at the time, and the address of the Jobs family in Los Altos. At the bottom of the stamp is the Buddhist mantra, gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl."
The four-page manuscript handwritten by Steve Jobs also includes circuit diagrams and designs for paddles and alignment of players for the soccer arcade-game. The auction is scheduled for 10 a.m. June 15.
Context
Jobs worked briefly at Atari in the 1970s, working nights separated from other employees who found him a rather difficult co-worker. The feeling seems to have been mutual, and Jobs frequently referred to his colleagues as "dumb s**ts," noted Sotheby's. According to Jobs' official biographer Walter Isaacson, the late Apple co-founder appreciated the simplicity of Atari's technology, later taking it with him to Apple.
Rare Apple-I Motherboard in Working Condition
In addition to the four-page manuscript memorabilia, Sotheby's will also auction a working Apple-I motherboard, complete with cassette interface, operating manuals, and a Basic Users Manual, CNET reported. According to Sotheby's, fewer than 50 Apple I computers are thought to have survived, and only six of them are known to be in working condition. The lot is expected to bring in $120,000 to $150,000.
In a Christie's auction held in London back in November 2010, a bidder paid $213,300 for an Apple-1, the first device produced by Jobs and Steve Wosniak, noted PCMagazine. The device originally cost $666.66. In another Sotheby's auction back in December, a three-page contract that established Apple Computer Co. sold for as much as $1.59 million.
