Steve Jobs rejected an Apple VideoPad prototype years ago, it is now going up for auction

VideoPad 2 is one of the early devices that paved way for the modern iPad but it was rejected in the prototype stage.

There are chances that you are familiar with Apple’s iPad, which is among the best tablets you can get. But there are more chances that you may not know that the iPad was not the first-of-its-kind, original Apple device. Back between 1993 and 1995, Apple developed a device called the VideoPad, but it could not convince Steve Jobs, who just returned in 1997 to take the reins of the company. This rejected prototype is now going up for auction in November, estimated to sell between $8,000 and $12,000.

The VideoPad 2 prototype arrived sometime during the two years between VideoPad 1 and VideoPad 3, but unlike them, could not make a public appearance. It was Apple’s next attempt at growing the line of Newton OS devices after the Newton Message Pad, but it had a fold-up screen with an integrated camera for video calling. The prototype was a result of conceptual design sketches that Apple’s former CEO John Sculley drew to envision his early ideas about a tablet.