Kicker - Expensive instructions

NICK EICHER, HOST: When was the last time you curled up in a comfy chair and read a really good instruction manual?

Yeah, I know. Nobody likes instruction manuals, especially us guys.

But what if I told you that someone just paid a fortune for a manual for an old computer nobody even uses anymore?

Now, it was, when it was made, the best selling computer in the world.

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That doesn’t explain why the manual was so valuable. But this does:

Inside the cover, somebody hand wrote the following words:

Your generation is the first to grow up with computers. Go change the world!

(signed) Steve Jobs

The autographed manual just sold at action for, get this, $787,000 dollars.

Quite a sum for a book nobody ever wanted to read!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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