Amaya Toman While getting Steve Wozniak's signature it's nothing complicated, Steve Jobs autographs have always been a bit worse. The co-founder of Apple became famous, among other things, for his resistance to providing autographs, and therefore it is not surprising that the prices of his signatures on anything can climb to dizzying heights in auction halls.
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The Jobs autograph going up for auction this week is one of the really interesting ones. RR Auction is currently auctioning one of the 190cs series PowerBooks from the mid-1000s. In the case of this computer, Jobs' signature is located on the bottom of the laptop. The starting price is 23 dollars (about XNUMX crowns in conversion), but as is the case with auctions of this type, it can be assumed that it will increase many times over during the auction.
According to the server AppleInsider is a PowerBook 190cs signed by Jobs listed in the auction house brochure RR Auction, but it has not (yet) appeared on the company's website. Steve Jobs added a dedication to his autograph on the bottom of the computer that read, "Doc, Happy Computing." The original owner of the signed PowerBook was apparently involved in the work on the sound for the animated film A Bug's Life from Pixar, which Jobs owned. This would go some way to explaining Jobs' willingness to provide an autograph.
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But Jobs' signature is also somewhat paradoxical. The computer on which it is located was manufactured at a time when Jobs was not working at Apple and therefore did not supervise its development or production in any way. The PowerBook 190cs went on sale in August 1995, and was discontinued in October of the following year. But Jobs did not return to the company until the end of 1996 and was appointed its (originally only temporary) director in September 1997.
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In addition, Jobs made no secret of a certain grudge he had towards Apple when he was not working at the company. When he was once invited to give a speech to a group of students, one of the audience asked him to sign the Apple Extended Keyboard. Jobs refused to provide an autograph, stating that the keyboard in question "represents everything he hates about Apple". He even allegedly began stripping the keyboard of function keys with the words: "I'm changing the world, one keyboard at a time". The PowerBook 190cs also had function keys, but at that time Jobs clearly had his own reasons why he was willing to sign the laptop. The auction of the PowerBook 190cs with the signature of Steve Jobs will start on March 12.
