Early Apple Computer Company check, 6 x 3, filled out in type and signed by Jobs, "steven jobs," payable to Redwood Ans. Service for $16.90, July 4, 1976. Headed "Apple Computer Company," the check uses Apple's first official address at "770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto"—the location of the answering service and mail drop that they used while still operating out of the famous Jobs family garage. In very fine condition, with a minor brush to Jobs' last name. Encapsulated and graded by PSA/DNA as "MINT 9."
Signed on the Fourth of July amidst celebrations of the United States bicentennial, Steve Jobs was about to foment a revolution of his own—the microcomputer revolution. During this period in the summer of 1976, roughly three months after founding the Apple Computer Company, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were hard at work building their first product: the Apple-1 Computer. Running the company out of the Jobs family garage, they got an 'official' address with the Redwood Answering Service in Palo Alto, which gave them a mail drop and telephone number for dealer inquiries. They set the price of the Apple-1 at $666.66, and sold about 175 of the 200 units built over the span of ten months.
The initial, niche success of the Apple-1 spurred development of the Apple II, released in 1977. The Apple II, along with the Commodore PET 2001 and Tandy TRS-80, became known as the 'trinity' of mass-market personal computers, and represented the advent of the microcomputer revolution.
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