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Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 18-03-2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n A one-page job application filled out by Steve Jobs more than four decades ago has sold for $174,000 (R2-million), more than three times its presale estimate, at an auction in the US.<\/p>\n Reuters reports Boston-based auction house RR Auction says that an Internet entrepreneur from England who wished to remain anonymous was the winning bidder.<\/p>\n The job application, dated 1973 and complete with spelling and punctuation errors, had been expected to fetch about $50,000. The sale price reached on Thursday was $174,757.<\/p>\n The form lists his name as “Steven jobs” and address as “reed college,” the Portland, Oregon College he attended briefly. Next to “Phone:” he wrote “none”.<\/p>\n Under a section titled “Special Abilities,” Jobs wrote “tech or design engineer. digital.\u2014from Bay near Hewitt-Packard”, a reference to pioneering California technology company Hewlett-Packard and the San Francisco Bay area.<\/p>\n The document does not state what position or company the application was intended for.<\/p>\n Jobs and friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple about three years later.<\/p>\n Bobby Livingston, executive vice-president at RR Auction says the high price reflects the continuing influence of Jobs, who died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 56.<\/p>\n “There are many collectors who have earned disposable income over the last few decades using Apple technology, and we expect similarly strong results on related material in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Other highlights from the online auction included an Apple Mac OS X technical manual signed by Jobs in 2001 that sold for $41,806 and a rare signed newspaper clipping from 2008 featuring an image of Jobs speaking at the Apple Developers Conference that sold for $26,950.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n