Woman tries to recycle $200k computer
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Woman tries to recycle $200k computer
It was one of only 200 Apple I's that were "assembled by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne in 1976."
An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976, is displayed during the First Bytes: Iconic Technology From the Twentieth Century, an online auction featuring vintage tech products at the Computer History Museum on June 24, 2013, in Mountain View, California.
A recycling center in the Silicon Valley is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collectible item worth $200,000.
The computer was inside boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her garage after her husband died, said Victor Gichun, the vice president of Clean Bay Area.
The computer was inside boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her garage after her husband died, said Victor Gichun, the vice president of Clean Bay Area.
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Title fail: she successfully recycled the computer. It has been converted to profit for the company and a collected item for some geek.
In her defense, it looks like a pile of trash and aside from collector value it is not quite as functional as most piles of trash.
In her defense, it looks like a pile of trash and aside from collector value it is not quite as functional as most piles of trash.