RR Auction’s bidding for Steve Jobs’ 1968 science fair project has now closed, with the hand-built exhibit selling for $34,375. Here are the details.
Do you own any rare Apple memorabilia? Let us know in the comments. Part of the Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two auction, bidding for the item has now closed, with the winning bid reaching $34,375, as spotted by MacRumors . The Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two featured nearly 150 Apple and tech-related rarities, including a signed Steve Jobs business card , a collection of Jobs’ personally owned electronic components, and a 1983 letter in which he declined a speaking invitation, sold for $156,658, $27,188, and $24,695, respectively. The highest-priced item, however, was a fully functional Apple-1 computer from the second batch of 50 units produced, which sold for $499,363.
The project “remained at the famed ‘Apple Garage’ property for decades,” after being preserved by Jobs’ family, according to RR Auction. His stepbrother, John Chovanec, said Jobs repeatedly declined to take the project back, eventually allowing Chovanec to keep it.
