About 13 days before Apple Computer Inc. was founded, Steve Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak wrote a check for $116.97 (equivalent to around $630 today). They likely didn t anticipate that this very check would eventually become a prized artifact of technological history, far surpassing its original value.
The advertisement is signed in lowercase letters with Mr Jobs' full name, "Steven Jobs." The phone number and address of his parents' house, which served as the Apple Computer Company's first headquarters.