31 May
2015
31 May
'15
12:36 p.m.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/05/31/usa-california-computer-idINL1N0YM…
May 31 (Reuters) - 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, is trying to track down a woman
in her 60s who dropped off some electronic goods in April, when she was
cleaning out the garage after her husband died.
In one of the boxes, buried under worthless keyboards, personal
computer pieces and wires, was a 1976 Apple 1, a groundbreaking home
computer. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak designed and hand-built the
computers and sold them for $666.66 each. Only a few dozen are known
still to exist.
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Chris Elmquist