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Lot #4018
Steve Jobs 1982 Time Magazine Cover Display, from the Jobs Family Home in Los Altos

The cover that introduced Silicon Valley's young iconoclast to mainstream America, preserved from the Jobs family home

Estimate: $800+

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The cover that introduced Silicon Valley's young iconoclast to mainstream America, preserved from the Jobs family home

Front cover of Time magazine from February 15, 1982, 7 x 10, with the cover story, “Striking It Rich,” portraying “Steven Jobs of Apple Computer” as one of “America’s Risk Takers.” Matted to an overall size of 11 x 14, a display proudly put together by his father, Paul Jobs, to showcase inside the Jobs family home in Los Altos. In fine condition.

The Time article described the nation’s upstart tech entrepreneurs whose firms were beginning to meet with massive success—Apple went public with an IPO in 1980, and had grown dramatically by 1982. At the end of the year, it was rumored that Jobs was under consideration as a finalist for Time’s ‘Man of the Year’—instead, Time named ‘The Computer’ as its ‘Machine of the Year.’


Provenance: from the personal collection of John Chovanec, stepbrother of Steve Jobs.

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