AppleInsider Staff
A Macintosh System Tools floppy disk signed by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is up for auction, with the piece of tech memorabilia estimated to sell for at least $7,500 when the gavel drops in December.
Up for bid at Boston's RR Auction, which has handled a number of Apple- and Jobs-related sales in the past, the Macintosh System Tools version 6.0 disk is signed by Steve Jobs in black felt tip pen. Listed in "fine" condition, the signature is a bit smudged, while the disk itself appears to be in generally good order with only a few blemishes and minimal signs of aging.
The sale started at $1,000 and after seven bids jumped to $4,600, where the price remains as of this writing. The next bid is pegged at $5,060, with a so-called 30 minute rule set to go into effect on Dec. 4.
According to RR Auction's website, potential buyers must place a bid before 6 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 4 to be eligible for an extended bidding period. During extended bidding, each new bid resets a 30-minute timer that, once elapsed, closes the sale.
Jobs was notoriously cautious when it came to handing out his autograph. As such, only a few rare items remain, many of which have fetched thousands of dollars in past auctions.
In August, for example, a Jobs-signed Pixar poster from the film "Toy Story" raised $31,250, while a Networld Expo poster from 1992 was sold in 2017 for $19,640.
Other Jobs-related items from past auctions include a newspaper clipping that sold for $27,000 and a signed first-issue of Macworld that fetched $47,775 in 2018. A job application that Jobs filled out by hand went for over $174,000 that same year.
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That's a floppy DISK. A floppy DRIVE is what you put a DISK in. Kids today. ;-)
The Jobs cult LIVES.
I assume the original recipient of the disk wanted proof they met Jobs. The person buying the disk wants what, exactly? Probably to resell for more in the future...or something.
If the desire to own the disk is because Jobs touched it...that’s just weird.
I get owning a piece of history, this isn’t that.
Why throw good money away so you can own something that was touched by Steve Jobs? Unless you’re hoping to capture some DNA for a whacky cloning experiment, every one of us who uses a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod already owns something that was “touched” by Steve Jobs. His legend lives on, but it’s not inside that floppy disk.