Apple cofounder Steve Jobs
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
  • A 1976 check to Radio Shack signed by Steve Jobs is expected to sell for more than $20,000.
  • Jobs famously did not give autographs, and a letter from him saying so sold for nearly $500,000.
  • Radio Shack is intertwined with Apple's creation story, per Jobs' biography.

A check signed by Steve Jobs to Radio Shack for $4.01 is set to fetch more than $20,000 at an auction.

Apple was founded in April 1976, about three months before this check was signed by Jobs as Steven, rather than Steve.

It states the address of the "Apple Computer Company," which was working on its first product – the Apple I personal computer kit – around this time, according to seller RR Auction.