• A piece of Apple memorabilia auctioned for tens of thousands of dollars.
• A colorful bow tie worn by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs sold for $35,750.
• He wore it when he debuted the company's Macintosh computer at an annual shareholder meeting in 1984.

When it came to fashion, Steve Jobs was perhaps best known for his signature black turtlenecks. But he wore a more obscure and much more colorful bow tie to unveil a monumental product in the company's history.

The pink-and-green striped bow tie belonging to the late Apple cofounder just sold for $35,750 to the highest bidder after Julien's Auctions concluded an auction called "Spotlight: History and Technology" on Thursday.

Jobs wore it at an annual shareholder meeting in 1984, where he introduced the Macintosh computer. It had 27 bids, according to the item listing and was only estimated to sell for $1,000 to $2,000.

He also wore the bow tie on a few other occasions, including two photo shoots surrounding the computer's release.

A year prior, Jobs had also worn the tie while speaking at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado, where he joked, "They paid me sixty dollars, so I wore a tie."

Other relics from Steve Jobs-era Apple have hit the auction block before, including a turtleneck of his, as well as his old business cards.

Products from Apple's early days have also been auctioned. In 2022, for example, an unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007, still in its original box, sold for more than $39,000 to the highest bidder. A year later, another unopened first-gen iPhone auctioned for a whopping $190,000.

Besides Jobs' bowtie, Julien's Auctions also listed other items in its auction, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook hoodie, which went for $15,875, and a photo of a SpaceX rocket launch signed by CEO Elon Musk, which sold for $10,400.

"Am I the first person to discover this?" is a tricky question when it comes to classic Macs, some of the most pored-over devices on the planet. But there's a lot to suggest that user paul.gaastra, on the 68kMLA vintage Mac forum, has been right for more than a decade: One of the capacitors on the Apple mid-'90s Mac LC III was installed backward due to faulty silkscreen printing on the board.

It seems unlikely that Apple will issue a factory recall for the LC III—or the related LC III+, or Performa models 450, 460, 466, or 467 with the same board design. The "pizza box" models, sold from 1993–1996, came with a standard 90-day warranty, and most of them probably ran without issue. It's when people try to fix up these boards and replace the capacitors, in what is generally a good practice (re-capping), that they run into trouble.

Doug Brown took part in the original 2013 forum discussion, and has seen it pop up elsewhere. Now, having "bought a Performa 450 complete with its original leaky capacitors," he can double-check Apple's board layout 30 years later and detail it all in a blog post (seen originally at the Adafruit blog). He confirms what a bunch of multimeter-wielding types long suspected: Apple put the plus where the minus should be.

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