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Title: Woz's hand-drawn Apple prototype schematics just sold for more than $630K
Post by: HCK on December 20, 2020, 04:05:19 pm
Woz's hand-drawn Apple prototype schematics just sold for more than $630K

What you need to know


Someone just paid more than $630,000 for some pieces of paper with Steve Wozniak's schematics on them.


That's a lot of money for some pieces of paper.

Boston-based RR Auction just sold some pieces of paper for more than $630,000. Oh, and those pieces of paper included hand-drawn schematics for an Apple II computer. And they were drawn by Steve Wozniak.

Yes, that Steve Wozniak. Here's the auction.


  The documents consisting of 23 total pages of work-in-progress notes and diagrams for the Apple II breadboard, which includes:
 
 
  Five pages of circuit schematics and notes on sheets of graphing paper.
  Six photocopied pages headed "Bus Sources," "System Timing," "Display," "Sync Timing & Adr. Gen," and "Timing," featuring several annotations. and
  A 12-page handwritten programming instruction guide consisting of 28 detailed steps.
 





  Accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from Wozniak: "These documents, circa 1975, are my original Appl...

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