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Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia auctions

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RR Auction conducted the ‘Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction’, featuring historical Apple and Steve Jobs memorabilia. Key items in the auction included Jobs’ 1968 eighth-grade science fair project from Cupertino Junior High, titled ‘What Is the Silicon-Controlled Rectifier?’. Sourced from the personal collection of his stepbrother, John Chovanec, the project consisted of a 10-page report, hand-drawn circuit diagrams, and a three-part plywood display featuring a wooden model of a thyristor. The science project sold for $34,375. Other significant auction results included a functional 1977 ‘Neumark’ Apple-1 computer, which fetched approximately $499,400, and a signed Apple business card that sold for over $156,000. An Apple II computer previously given to Jobs’ father sold for $12,079, while an Apple P68 ‘Stealth iPod’ development prototype sold for $91,479. In a subsequent development, a rare, Bonhams is scheduled to auction the ‘Hatfield’ unit this October, an original, fully operational Apple I computer known Apple-1 computer. Cataloged as number 48 in the ‘Hatfield’ unit official Apple-1 registry, the device is scheduled for auction this October. one of fewer than 75 known surviving units. The device, which machine features a signature by from co-founder Steve Wozniak on the motherboard and includes an authentic signed 1978 letter from signed by Steve Jobs, Jobs. The letter was originally sent to the unit’s first owner, Fred Hatfield, offering to trade the Apple-1 for an Apple II motherboard; Hatfield declined the offer, preserving the unit. The computer is expected estimated to fetch between $500,000 and $800,000. This specific unit, cataloged as number 48 on the official Apple-1 registry, was previously sold in a non-functional state for $40,000 in 2013 before being restored $800,000, with bidding taking place from October 4 to working order. 14.

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  1. 2026-09-04 22:05 UTC Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia auctions
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  4. 2026-08-29 00:34 UTC Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia auctions
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