A check signed by former Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs sold for $46,063 at auction this week. Issued by “Apple Computer Company” in 1976, the $4.01 check was made out to electronics retailer RadioShack.

  • @[email protected]
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    1011 months ago

    Every person who has ever written a check ever. I haven’t written a check in many years though, so I can understand how you aren’t familiar

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      311 months ago

      I’ve seen a lot of checks in my life, and I’ve only seen the fraction used in the full written out line on the bottom, never in the top right box.

      • blivet
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        211 months ago

        And why is the area code of Apple’s phone number in single quotes?

    • @9point6
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      311 months ago

      In the USA maybe

      It’s been a long time since I’ve written a cheque, but it was always decimals in the UK

      • teft
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        111 months ago

        I wonder how you guys wrote checks before the decimalization.

        • @9point6
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          111 months ago

          I guess we probably used the old English currency notation, like 10/6d and £1/3/2, but that was long before I was writing cheques.

          Interesting thing with the long form part, we would always do “one hundred and forty five pounds twenty two pence only” the only being used as the sort of end marker to mitigate changes