Floppy Disk With Steve Jobs’ Signature Is Up For Auction At Rs 60 Lakh

Released in 1988, the floppy disk containing Macintosh System Tools 6.0 was first estimated to have a value of $7,500 or Rs 5,31,483, one-tenth of the final auction price of $85,115 or s 60 Lakh.

RR Auction house has put the floppy disk with a blurred signature of Steve Jobs for auction with the starting price of $1,000. According to the auction house, the value of this floppy disk is the signature of the co-founder of Apple as he rarely left his signature on his products.

The description of the floppy disk reads:

Besides the floppy disk, the Macintosh computer of Apple is also up for auction with the dizzying price of $150,000 or 1 crore.

This is one of the two extremely rare Macintosh prototypes with a 5.25-inch drive. Initially, this drive was meant for Apple Lisa. However, due to its instability and big design, this 5.25-inch was killed off in 1984 and replaced by the 3.5-inch Sony drive.

At that time, Steve Jobs requested all Macintosh computers using the 5.25-inch drive to be destroyed. However, a software developer who worked for the company that was in charge of MacWrite decided to keep one. This computer was on display at the Macintosh’s 30th anniversary in 2014.

Specialist Adam Stackhouse at Bonhams said:

Launched in 1984, the Macintosh 128K was the first personal Macintosh created by Apple. The retail price of the device at that time was $2,495 with a 9-inch screen, 128KB RAM and could be used with a mouse. Macintosh 128K set a strong start for later generations. This first Mac came with two revolutionary software, MacPaint, and MacWrite, which were the two most attractive features of Macintosh.

In May 1984, 70,000 devices were sold. However, the sales of the device started to decrease. In addition to limitations in design, Apple and Macintosh also faced strong competition from IBM, which was dominating the market at that time.

In 1985, Apple discontinued manufacturing the Macintosh 128K, before Steve Jobs left Apple after a series of disagreements with the company’s board.

After Steve Jobs’ departure, Apple released another Macintosh version with a similar design but an upgrade in the configuration.

Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, talked about the first Mac: