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Woman who left rare Apple 1 for recycling has $100,000 check waiting
Woman who left rare Apple 1 for recycling has $100,000 check waiting
Mystery
woman dropped off computer – built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in
1976 – after cleaning out garage, Silicon Valley recycling firm says
An original Apple computer, now known as the Apple 1, which was designed
and hand-built in 1976 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is shown at
the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Photograph: Tony Avelar/EPA
A $100,000 check is waiting for a mystery woman who donated a rare Apple 1 computer to a Silicon Valley recycling firm.
CleanBayArea in Milpitas, California, said on its website that a
woman in her 60s dropped off some electronic goods in April, when she
was cleaning out the garage after her husband died.
The boxes of computer parts contained a 1976 Apple 1, which the
recycling firm sold for $200,000 in a private auction. The recycler’s
policy is to split the proceeds 50-50 with the person who donated the
equipment.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak built the computers in 1976 and sold
them for $666.66 each. Only a few dozen of the groundbreaking home
computers are known to still exist.
“We thought it was fake. It was real,” CleanBayArea Vice president
Victor Gichun told NBC news. He said he remembers what the donor looked
like and all she had to do is show up.
“Tell this lady to please come over to our warehouse in Milpitas
again,” Gichun said. “And we’ll give her a check for $100,000.”
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