Huffington Post: The man who turned Apple into a web-connected empire of consumer gadgets drew some of his inspiration from a table-top box that wired French households to networked information way before the arrival of mass Internet, a French telecoms engineer says.
Long before hundreds of millions of homes worldwide began connecting to the Internet in the 1990s, France's Minitel box, the steam train of the online world, attracted the attention of Apple Inc's now deceased founder, Steve Jobs.
It feels real. Except, it isn’t.
Steve Jobs's Apple-1 prototype computer sold at auction for about $700,000. Paul Terrell, the proprietor of one of the earliest computer stores in the world,
Steve Jobs’ job application has been auctioned for GBP 162,000. In this letter, no role is mentioned for which Steve applied.
