Apple II Manual With ‘Prophetic’ Steve Jobs Message & Autograph Sells For $787K
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A rare Apple II manual, inscribed and blessed by Steve Jobs himself in 1980, has sold for a whopping US$787,484 by RR Auction late last week.
Written across the table of contents, Jobs has declared, “Julian, Your generation is the first to grow up with computers. Go change the world! steven jobs, 1980” and is co-signed by Mike Markkula, Apple’s second CEO. It was estimated to fetch at least US$25,000.
“Julian” in the inscription, and the owner of the signed manual, was the son of entrepreneur Mike Brewer, who had secured exclusive distribution rights for Apple products in the UK in 1979.
As stated by the auction house, Julian Brewer reminisces on how he “only later understood how rare it was for Jobs to sign anything, let alone to write an inscription like this.” He reports that his father “got on well” with Jobs, which made him feel “the inscription was made with care.”
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It has been noted that the Jobs message turned out to be “prophetic.” Many entrepreneurs in tech who are constantly changing the world with their boundary-pushing offers—think Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk—are of the generation Jobs pays tribute to in the message: “the first to grow up with computers.”
Alongside this manual, RR Auction also sold various Jobs memorabilia. These include a letter typed by him, stating “I’m afraid I don’t sign autographs,” which he then signed. This was sold for US$479,939, just a little less than the manual.
[via MacRumors, images via RR Auction]
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