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Wells Fargo bank check, 7.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Steve Jobs, "steven jobs," payable to Pacific Telephone for $47.50, March 28, 1976. This temporary check, issued upon opening Apple's first bank account, bears the same routing and account numbers as other early Apple Computer Company checks we have offered – most of those, however, date to July 1976 and are imprinted with Apple's first official address at '770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto' – the location of an answering service and mail drop that they used while still operating out of the famous Jobs family garage. That very address has been annotated on the check’s reverse in the hand of a bank teller, who also writes the name of the company’s three founders: “DBA Apple Computer Co., Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak & Ronald Wayne, 770 Welch Rd., Palo Alto.” In fine condition.
Marked as check "No. 6," this ultra-early check pre-dates the official founding of Apple Computer, Inc. – just four days later, on April 1, 1976, co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne would sign the partnership agreement that officially brought Apple Computer into existence. Twelve days after the company’s establishment, Wayne sold his 10% share of the new company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800, and one year later accepted a final $1,500 to forfeit any potential future claims against the newly incorporated company.
In March 1976, the month of this check, Wozniak had completed work on an innovative microcomputer design – now known as the Apple-1 Computer – and Jobs suggested that they sell it. A desirable Jobs-signed check paying Apple Computer’s telephone bill some 31 years before the release of the first iPhone on June 29, 2007. Of considerable interest and rarity is the check’s listing of the company’s three co-founders, a unique distinction not previously encountered on a Jobs-signed check.
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