WOMAN LEAVES RARE $200,000+ APPLE I COMPUTER AT LOCAL RECYCLING CENTER

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WOMAN LEAVES RARE 200,000 APPLE I COMPUTER AT
LOCAL RECYCLING CENTER
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• A California electronics recycling center is at a
  dead end, hoping to hand over a check for
  100,000 to an unidentified woman who dropped off
  an extremely rare Apple I computer amongst her
  donations and left without providing any of her
  contact information.

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The Mystery Woman 
In April, a Milpitas, CA woman dropped off
several boxes at a recycling center. She had
stopped by on a Friday shortly before they had
closed wanting to quickly get rid of her stuff,
stating that she was cleaning out her garage
shortly after her husbands death. The facility
had a backlog of donated items at the time the
woman had dropped off her boxes so they were
unable to go through them until two weeks
later. Upon finally digging through the boxes,
workers discovered the Apple I computer and later
sold it in May to a private collector for a total
sum of 200,000 and are ready to give the woman
her half, if they ever find her. The company has
a running policy that states it will split
whatever it makes from sales with the donor of
the items sold. The Vice-President, who was
working when the woman initially dropped off the
computer explained that the she had declined to
leave her information for a tax-receipt. He
remembers that the woman had left as quickly as
she arrived, driving an SUV. He confidently
believes that he would recognize the mystery
woman if he saw her again. He states that from
now on, he will be much more insistent on getting
the contact information of donors.
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• The rare Apple I computer was the first computer
  made and sold by Apple, Inc., the Cupertino,
  CA-based consumer electronics company now known
  for their ever-popular iPhone series and their
  most recent product, the Apple Watch.
• The Apple I computer was designed by company
  co-founder Steve Wozniak in the garage of
  co-founder Steve Jobs parents. The Apple I was
  first shown to the public at the Homebrew
  Computer Club, a hobbyist computer group from
  Silicon Valley that gathered from 1975 to 1986
  which Wozniak and Jobs were members of. The
  computer, was first sold for 666.66 (2762.94
  today adjusted for inflation) in July of 1976 as
  a motherboard without basic features including a
  case, monitor, and keyboard. Some users would
  construct their own wooden casings for the
  computer and attach a separate monitor and
  keyboard. Wozniak hand-built each of the 200
  computers that were sold before it was
  discontinued in September of 1977.

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• As of 2013, at least 63 Apple I computers are
  known to exist and only six are believed to be in
  working condition. With so few still in
  existence, the Apple I is known to catch large
  sums at auction. A still-functioning Apple I
  computer sold for 671,400 at a German auction
  house back in the spring of 2013. In the fall of
  2014, another working Apple I was sold at auction
  to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI for
  905,000.

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