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Apple Computer Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for $46,000 (www.macrumors.com)
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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.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how you guys wrote checks before the decimalization.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 11 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