The second check issued by Apple, signed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, is being auctioned off
The company bylaws required any check for more than $100 to be signed by two of the three partners. At the time, Jobs and Wozniak each owned 45% of the company and Ronald Wayne was a 10% owner. They visited The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, and tried to sell their computer kit to owner Paul Terrell. The auction listing contains the rest of the story:
Not everything Apple makes is a big hit and the Newton MessagePad is proof. The current top bid is only $200
“Terrell offered to buy 50 of the computers-at a wholesale price of $500 a piece, to retail at $666.66—but only if they came fully assembled. With this request, Terrell aimed to elevate the computer from the domain of the enthusiast to the realm of the mainstream consumer. Wozniak later placed Terrell’s purchase order in perspective: ‘That was the biggest single episode in all of the company’s history. Nothing in subsequent years was so great and so unexpected.'”
RR Auction has a ton of Apple memorabilia you can bid on including a handwritten draft made by Steve Jobs for an Apple I advertisement (current high bid $17,270), Jobs’ business cards when he was president of NeXT and chairman and CEO of Pixar (current high bids $533, $666 respectively), a fully operational Apple 1 in a homemade case signed by Wozniak (current high bid $83,417), a sealed unopened 8GB 2007 iPhone (top bid is currently $27,815), and more. All of the Apple-related lots go off the board on August 24th.
