Archean Posts: 5,660 +112 Dec 14, 2011 #1 Apple's founding papers have been sold at auction for $1,594,500 (£1.03m). Sotheby's had estimated the three typed partnership agreements would sell for between $100,000 and$150,000. The documents were signed by the firm's three co-founders, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976. The papers include an amendment added 11 days later when Mr Wayne quit. The buyer was Eduardo Cisneros, chief executive of Cisneros Corporation.
Apple's founding papers have been sold at auction for $1,594,500 (£1.03m). Sotheby's had estimated the three typed partnership agreements would sell for between $100,000 and$150,000. The documents were signed by the firm's three co-founders, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976. The papers include an amendment added 11 days later when Mr Wayne quit. The buyer was Eduardo Cisneros, chief executive of Cisneros Corporation.