"Now Chovanec, who wound up in possession of much of the contents of that bedroom, has consigned a collection of the ephemera to RR Auction for sale. Items include Jobs' desk, its drawers filled with Reed College notebooks and work he did for Atari in the mid-'70s; the Bob Dylan 8-track tapes (and one Joan Baez tape) he listened to incessantly; a set of magazines that Jobs' father kept to commemorate cover stories about his son; Jobs' annotated horoscope generated by an Atari computer;"
"The Chovanec contributions are part of a larger collection of items up for bid. The star of the auction is the first check cut by Apple Computer Inc. (The auction house is not revealing the current owner.) Written on March 16, 1976, it predates the partnership agreement that formalized the company's origin 18 days later. Cosigned by Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the $500 check is written to circuit-board designer Howard Cantin, who did the work for what would become the Apple 1."
John Chovanec, who became Steve Jobs' stepbrother when his mother married Jobs' father in 1990, inherited many items from Jobs' childhood bedroom. Chovanec consigned a collection of ephemera to RR Auction. The collection includes Jobs' desk with Reed College notebooks and Atari-era work, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez tapes, magazines saved by Jobs' father, an Atari-generated annotated horoscope, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, an early Apple poster, and high-school bow ties. The larger sale also features the first check cut by Apple Computer Inc., a $500 March 16, 1976 check cosigned by Jobs and Wozniak paid to Howard Cantin.
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