Sotheby ’s is auctioning off a little piece of Apple history : an engineering memo indite by an unbearable teenage Steve Jobs before Apple even existed — the former knowndocumentthe man produced .
The note , stamped with Jobs ’ home address and a Buddhist mantra—”gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl”—dates back to his tenure at Atari , where we know he was hate by his coworkers for his disregard for washup and tendency to constantly insult everyone around him . The class was 1974 , and Jobs was relegated to a night displacement so that nobody would have to try or smell him . But the varsity letter , regarding a second change to a football arcade game , is still kind of awe-inspiring : the product of a mentality that had n’t yet turn into the tyrant - sensation - seer - bastard Jobs has been beatify as today . job had n’t thought of Apple , but he was only a span years off from the start of a change in the world . If you ’ve got ten high-flown or so to make an former bid , have at it — though it ’ll probably take a nether region of a lot more than that to take the affair home base . It ’s not a terribly interesting bit of writing , but as far as artefact go , there ’s something magical about a mundane handwritten thing — think of this as Picasso scribbling a reminder to himself to buy newfangled key . [ Sotheby ’s ]
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