An Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs sold for $787,484

An Apple II manual signed by the company's late co-founder Steve Jobs sold for $787,484 at RR Auction in Boston last week. 

The computer's 196-page manual is signed by Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula, an early Apple investor and the company’s second CEO. The note states:

"Julian, Your generation is the first to grow up with computers. Go change the world! Steven Jobs, 1980."

Jim Irsay, the owner of Indianapolis Colt, scored the winning big for the manual and said:

When we think of the greatest, most innovative minds of the past two centuries, Steve Jobs must certainly be included among them. He was a truly transformative figure who changed the way in which human beings think, do business, and interact on a daily basis.

RR Auction reported that Jobs's signed note was written the same year Apple floated on the stock market, “powerfully conveys his grand ambition and vision for the future of Apple and personal computing as a whole,” adding that when he signed it, Jobs was in the U.K. promoting the then-fledgling company as he grew it “from Cupertino start-up to global phenomenon.”