In 1990, John Chovanec’s mother married Steve Jobs’ father, Paul. Chovanec was never close to his stepbrother, who was then CEO of Pixar and Next, but their interactions were always amiable. On one memorable occasion, Jobs took Chovanec into his childhood bedroom—in the house with the famed garage where the first Apple computers were assembled—and fired up an early Macintosh to deliver a personal chronicle of how it was developed.
Now Chovanec, who wound up in possession of much of the contents of that bedroom, has consigned a collection of the ephemera to RR Auction for sale. Items include Jobs’ desk, its drawers filled with Reed College notebooks and work
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