Auction with Steve Jobs memorabilia makes almost $1 million

Almost $1 million worth of Apple‘s history was sold during an auction called “Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution.”

It was held by the auction house RR Auction and closed on August 22, offering bidders some rare items from the technology company’s early history. The most expensive item on the 175 items list was the Apple-1 computer gifted by a former Apple employee and restored in June 2024 with “period-correct” components, according to the listing.

“This exceptional Apple-1 computer, restored to full functionality, comes from the collection of early Apple employee Dana Redington, who acquired it in early 1978. Redington discovered the Apple-1 board in a pile of soon-to-be-discarded hardware while preparing for a move,” Mike Graff, media representative of RR Auction told Newsweek.

The website states that it was sold for $315,914.

Three polaroid photographs of the original prototype of Apple-1 were also sold for $54,904. These photos were reportedly part of the original sales pitch which eventually earned Apple their first contract, according to technology publication Peta Pixel.

Another notable sale was Apple’s Lisa which was sold for $81,251.

Lisa was one of the first computers to introduce the use of a mouse, according to Digital Trends. In 1983 Lisa cost $9,995. The name is an acronym for “Local Integrated Software Architecture” but it was also the name of Steve Jobs’ daughter, according to RR Auction.

Bidders were also fighting for the original iPhone which changed the phone industry forever with the first introduction of a touch-screen.

Apple removed nearly all buttons on the phone. The device was developed in secret and was introduced to the world in San Francisco in 2007. The revolutionary phone was sold for $25,460.

A very bright collection of all six colors of the first Apple notebook computers — the iBook G3 — was sold for $6,248. The design of the clamshell-style computers was reportedly inspired by the previously released G3 iMacs.

A rare photo of young Steve Jobs on his original NeXT I.D. was part of another Polaroid collection. The signed Polaroid comes with photos of all founding members of NeXT Inc., a company Jobs started after leaving Apple in 1985. Jobs was reportedly fired by the board of Apple after a disagreement with the CEO, according to the Corporate Governance Institute.

Jobs returned to Apple eleven years later to rebuild the company. He stayed at Apple until he died in 2011. It was after his return that Apple became a world-renowned technological giant that created the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and more.

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