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Rare handwritten Apple-1 Ad Of Steve Jobs’ Sells For a Whopping 1.4 Crore At Auction

According to Boston-based RR Auction, a handwritten ad by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for the Apple-1 Computer sold for an astonishing $175,759 (about 1.4 crore). The advertisement provides information on the early years of Apple and the brilliant mind of Steve Jobs, who helped bring about a technological revolution.

Steve Jobs’s Apple-1 computer sold for Rs. 1.4 crore

The auction company also posted a blog on this specific advertisement, which was created in 1976 in black ink on an 8.5 x 11 binder sheet for the Apple-1 computer. The consignor found the document while paying a visit to Steve Jobs’ garage in the same year. It contained technical specifications for the Apple-1, a cutting-edge computer.

Specification of the computer

The specs of the computer are listed in a handwritten note by Jobs. These features include a power supply, 8K of RAM, a full CRT terminal with keyboard input, composite video output, and an expansion capacity of up to 65K via an edge connector. It’s interesting to note that Jobs stated that the inclusion of BASIC programming made the 6501 or 6502 microprocessors his top choice. He even gave the precise number of integrated circuits (ICs) used, highlighting the system’s capacity for development and expansion.

The pictures included in it

The advertisement also includes two Polaroid images that were taken at Mountain View, California’s The Byte Shop. One of the images displays an Apple-1 board that has been fully completed, complete with a keyboard and monitor. The other picture shows an Apple-1 computer screen with an Apple Basic program running on it. Jobs has annotated the image, writing, “Fuzzy because the camera wiggled.”

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The edition of July 1976

The alignment of the paper with the initial Apple-1 commercial, which appeared in the July 1976 edition of Interface Magazine, further supports its historical relevance. The legitimacy of the document was confirmed by Apple historian Corey Cohen, who pointed out that the handwritten draft’s technical specs exactly match those of the original advertisement.

Kavya Bhatt

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