Fifty years after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, RR Auction’s Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two traces the company’s evolution from its earliest Apple-1 computers to the launch of the iPhone through more than 200 historic computers, prototypes, documents, and Steve Jobs artifacts.
Leading the auction is the fully functional ‘Neumark’ Apple-1 Computer, a remarkably original 1977 system from the second batch of 50 Apple-1 computers produced and sold. Housed in a period Smith-Corona typewriter case modified specifically for the computer, the system retains its original Apple-1 board, Apple Cassette Interface, Datanetics Rev D keyboard, manuals, software, and correspondence. Restored to operational condition by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen in June 2026, the computer successfully completed more than eight hours of operational testing, including loading Apple BASIC and running period software. The accompanying archive documents the machine as an actively used personal computer during Apple’s earliest years.
Among the auction’s rarest development artifacts is the Apple P68 ‘Stealth iPod’ Development Prototype. Developed by Apple’s Special Projects Group during creation of the original iPod, the oversized engineering enclosure concealed the product’s final dimensions while engineers refined its hardware and software ahead of its public introduction in October 2001. Preserved by original iPod team program manager Jim Dumont, the prototype is accompanied by an extensive archive documenting the culture and milestones of Apple’s original iPod engineering team.
The sale also features a Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card, dating to circa 1983 and encapsulated by PSA/DNA with a GEM MT 10 grade. Issued while Jobs served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, the card bears Apple’s iconic rainbow logo and the company’s Bandley Drive headquarters address in Cupertino. One of only a handful of Jobs-signed Apple Computer business cards authenticated by PSA/DNA, it represents one of the rarest surviving examples from Apple’s formative years.
The auction also returns to Apple’s earliest days through a Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer Company check dated July 29, 1976. Written just months after the company was founded, the check bears Apple’s first official Welch Road address while Jobs and Wozniak were building the first Apple-1 computers. Made payable to early employee Elizabeth Holmes, the document reflects the small, hands-on operation that assembled the company’s first production systems during the summer of 1976.
As Apple expanded beyond its first computer, the sale includes an exceptionally early Apple II preserved in its scarce original ventless case with a Rev. 0 logic board. Also offered is a complete Apple Lisa-1 with its original ‘Twiggy’ floppy drives, preserving Apple’s first commercial graphical user interface computer before the Macintosh carried many of its innovations to a wider market.
Representing Apple’s next major breakthrough is a factory-sealed 4GB first-generation Apple iPhone, the earliest and shortest-lived configuration of the original 2007 release. Discontinued only months after its introduction as most buyers chose the higher-capacity model, the unopened device captures the beginning of the smartphone era launched by Apple’s first iPhone.
Additional highlights include computers preserved in the Jobs family home, a Steve Jobs-signed 1984 Macintosh team letter, signed Apple business cards, rare Apple prototypes, early processors, and other artifacts documenting the birth and growth of personal computing.
Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two by RR Auction is open for bidding through August 20. For more information, visit www.rrauction.com.
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