Early Jobs' document for Atari goes on the block

For more proof that many,  many things have surprising potential value as collectibles, here's a TechCrunch piece about a Sotheby's planned sale of an early technical document related to Steve Jobs. Perhaps this one has double geek value, because the memo outlines ways to improve circuit design in an Atari arcade video game called "World Cup Football" (or "Soccer," depending on the country).

It's dated two years before Apple's founding, from the same garage address where the iconic computer company later would be hatched. The document auction takes place in mid-June, and Sotheby's is estimating the document, the earliest known corporate document connected with a Jobs company, will go for as much as $15,000.

To put that in another light, that's the price of one-and-a-half Lisa computers, the predecessor to the Mac, when they debuted in about 1983.

I wonder how long it's going to take before the Atari game console that I threw away, is worth anything?  If my long-ago thrown away set of Star Wars action figures have anything to say about it, maybe not too long.