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janrinok
on Saturday November 30 2019, @04:54PM
from the it'll-cost-that-much-to-buy-an-Apple-drive dept.
from the it'll-cost-that-much-to-buy-an-Apple-drive dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
How much is Steve Jobs' signature worth? More than a top-end 16-inch MacBook Pro and an iPhone 11 Pro Max combined, apparently. Auction house RR Auction has put up a floppy disk signed by the late Apple co-founder for sale -- with an estimated value of $7,500.
The floppy disk in question contains Macintosh System Tools 6.0 software. That dates it to around 1988. The disk is especially valuable, RR Auction claims, because Jobs was not a prolific autograph signer.
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Floppy Disk With Steve Jobs' Signature Valued At $7,500
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(Score: 2) by Acabatag on Saturday November 30 2019, @05:10PM (7 children)
Whose software was on the floppy diskette signed by Jobs? Not his, to be certain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)
It's Geeks_gone_wild.v1.prn
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday November 30 2019, @11:52PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:00PM (2 children)
That brings up an interesting point. I'm actually kind of curious as to the story behind that floppy disk, and why Steve Jobs decided to autograph it. Steve Jobs didn't like to give out his autograph, so it's not like he'd just autograph some random piece of Apple memorabilia just because someone requested it. I could see the Toy Story poster mentioned in the article, but why a floppy disk that contains software that he didn't even create?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:10PM (1 child)
He probably signed it to mark it as his own. He didn't want some douchebag walking off with his floppy. So, an inscription, a chant, a few occult gestures, and calling on the name of Chthulhu, and finally, sacrifice a young virgin, and that floppy is his forever!!
He probably got cheated on the deal for a virgin though. If the spell had been cast properly, the floppy would have followed him into eternity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:45AM
Yeah, "sacrifice a young virgin," he said.
Uhm. Not "too" young. Hello FBI!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:17PM (1 child)
Knowing Steve Jobs, what was really on that disk were images of dithered and highly-pixellated assholes of various men downloaded at 1200 baud from BBS that catered to homosexuals. Of course he loaded them onto a System Tools disk so that people wouldn't get curious when they saw it lying on his desk, and had signed the disk so that coworkers (who had their own disks of Tools) would return it to him should he lose it.
I wonder who would buy it? Probably Peter Thiel. He'd keep it in a glass case in a climate controlled room that also contained the bullet that killed Kennedy in addition to a prototype fuse of the tactical nukes that leveled the World Trade Center.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @08:11PM
Not from various men, every image is MDC's asshole except the money shot of MDC holding a Mac II like a pizza box with his dick in it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:25PM
To start your collection of the autographs of all the Valley asshole CEOs.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:30PM
I too have a Macintosh System Tools (version 6.0.8) floppy disk with Steve Jobs' signature, and would be willing to sell it for just $8000, because it's a newer version, and as all Apple users know, "newer is ALWAYS better, zero exceptions, ever."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:05PM (2 children)
There are Apple Phanbois out there, who would pay that much to sniff Job's rotting anus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:08PM
You sound poor. This is an investment.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:19PM
Yeesh. It must look and smell like a Rafflesia [wikipedia.org] by now!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:07PM (3 children)
Of that low price
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @07:15PM
Collectors have to buy these with their leftover pocket change after they have already shelled out for the latest Apple products.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Saturday November 30 2019, @10:19PM (1 child)
Shame is an emotion that he probably never experienced.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @10:53PM
Jean-Louis Gassee calls Steve Jobs emotionally handicapped [folklore.org]
(Score: 1, Redundant) by looorg on Sunday December 01 2019, @09:00AM
While it might not matter much since I doubt someone bought this cause they really wanted Mac Sys Tool 6.0 but instead bought it as an artifact with Jobs name scribbled on it. I do wonder if it still runs or works. Boxed away I still have hundreds of floppy disks, mostly from the C64 and Amiga days and I do wonder or worry a bit if they still actually work. I recall even when the Amiga was my current system that some of the cheaper floppies started to go brittle as far as the plastic casing was concerned. Now I probably have not even opened said box in 20ish years or so, it's one of them projects that I'll get around to when I retire or become super filthy rich and I can stop working.