Speaking of money, if bidding for the check was too rich for your blood, two items signed by Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne (the third partner when Apple was incorporated who left the company 12 days later) were auctioned as one lot. The lot contained a replica of the Apple-I manual and a photo of the Apple II. Expected to fetch over $200, the lot was sold for $491.
Signed by the late Steve Jobs, this check from 1976 fetched $46,043 at auction
An 8GB first-gen iPhone was 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 was using Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Micro Computer System to help him build the Blue Box that he sold to consumers to help them illegally make free long distance calls. Wozniak and Steve Jobs, for the first time, were partners on this venture (sort of like the first time John Lennon met Paul McCartney) and the pair sold 200 boxes at $150 each.
