Published 17:54 IST, December 9th 2019

Floppy disk with Steve Jobs' signature sells for $84,000 by US auction house

Floppy disk with Steve Jobs signature sells for $84,115 by a RR auction house in the U.S. On the disk’s label is the signature of  Steve jobs with a black pen.

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An auction house in US, RR Auction has sold a floppy disk signed by late Apple co-founder for $84,000.  floppy disk has a copy of Macintosh system tools version 6.0. On disk’s label is signature of  Steve jobs with a black felt pen.

In fine condition

RR Auction’s website states that floppy disk is in fine condition with slight brushing to ink and part of item description res that it is a hugely desirable format for Jobs' seldom-seen autograph. Jobs is remembered as a reluctant signer and he often declined to comply with requests of collectors making Apple co-founder’s signature a collector’s item. 

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According to 2018 Paul Fraser Collectibles Autograph index, it was revealed that Jobs’ signature was more than $50,000 making it one of most expensive autographs in world. In September earlier this year, a poster for original Toy Story signed by jobs sold for over $30,000 by Nate D Sanders Auctions. Jobs was chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, whose first production was Toy story. movie turned out to be a major hit. Last year, a job application was written by him in 1973 sold for $1,74,000.

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Jobs was chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple which recently released iphone 11 in September this year. Russian luxury phone brand Caviar recently launched a special edition iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro which features an actual piece of Steve Jobs' black turtleneck cloth. limited-edition iPhone is called ‘Superior Jobs’. re are only nine such iPhones with Superior edition. It is priced at $6,290 for 64GB model, going up to $7,460 for 512GB Max version. Or than Steve Jobs, Caviar has also paid tribute to a few more immortal legends.

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17:14 IST, December 9th 2019