Apple I and Steve Jobs Atari memo auctioned

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Sotheby's just auctioned off a working Apple I computer for $374,000. It included the manuals and the Apple I cassette interface. Someone else paid $27,500 for a 1974 memo by Steve Jobs about how to improve Atari's World Cup arcade game.

"Apple 1 computer and Steve Jobs Atari memo sold at auction" (BBC News)

Lot 57: Apple I Computer (Sotheby's)

Lot 56: "Instructions for Converting World Cup PC Board" (Sotheby's)

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niktemadur

Someone paid $27,500 for a 1974 memo about how to improve Atari’s World Cup arcade game.

This is getting out of hand. When is the auction for used TP gonna start?
dr

Same one on ebay for $22K a couple of years ago:
http://apple1computer.blogspot.com/2010/09/another-apple-1-original-sold-on-ebay.html
- http://www.paradea.org/notes/ Teirhan
  
  I’m not familiar with inflation rates, nor do I care that much, but I wonder what this guy’s profit was (assuming it was the same guy) after factoring in inflation.
BarBarSeven

Some might balk at the $27,500 selling price for the Steve Jobs memo, but it does have value. It’s about pixel tweaks to Atari’s “World Cup Football” game. Maybe the price is high, but it’s an early example of Steve’s eye for detail in the user interface of the software he was working on. Pretty historically significant if you as me.