Steve Jobs’ childhood items, including rare Apple products, go up for auction

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• Steve Jobs' early Apple products and memorabilia are up for auction
• Auction includes 191 items like vintage computers and Jobs' childhood items
• Bidding runs until January 29 ahead of Apple's 50th anniversary in April

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A collection of Steve Jobs' earliest Apple products and personal memorabilia is going up for auction, as the company approaches its 50th anniversary this year. The auction is being handled by RR Auction, which has opened bidding on 191 items spanning Jobs’ early life and Apple’s inception period from the 1970s. It also includes childhood belongings of Jobs, who died in 2011, after years of battling with pancreatic cancer.

Multiple Apple products go up for auction to mark the company’s 50th anniversary

Apple was cofounded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, with both signing a $500 cheque, weeks before the official creation of the Cupertino tech giant. Now, that historic cheque, which was made out to Howard Cantin, designer of the Apple I Printed Circuit Board, is up for auction, which ends on January 29. The sale is run by RR Auction, and also includes some of the early items and childhood belongings of Jobs, giving fans a chance to own part of the company’s history ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary in April.

RR Auction, the Boston-based auction house managing the sales, has confirmed that a total of 191 items, which include vintage Apple computers, original documents from the company's inception days and Jobs’ personal belongings, including a set of bowties and Bob Dylan 8-track tapes, are now up for sale. A prototype motherboard for the Apple-1, alongside other rare hardware from Apple’s pre-Macintosh era, is also drawing strong interest.

The auction also includes a functional Lisa-1 computer, a vintage machine that preceded Apple’s Macintosh lineups and the first-generation iPhone. Further, Apple’s marketing posters from the 1970s and 1980s, rainbow glasses, letters, magazines, older Apple computers, and other historic items are also included in the auction. Bidding for this rare collection is open until January 29, with interest set to grow in the coming days.