NEW YORK: A California woman gets rid of a rare Apple computer that fetches a whopping amount of $200,000 from a collector.
Revealing that the company is looking for the woman, Clean Bay Area’s employees said that the woman had dropped off a box of unwanted gadgets; without either disclosing her name or asking for a receipt. The box she had dumped included a first-generation Apple I computer which is considered an invaluable collectable by computer history enthusiasts.
The employees of the Clean Bay Area recycling firm also said that the box was dumped by the woman in April. While discarding the box, she had said that she was on a mission to throw away needless things from her house after her husband’s death.
When the box was opened by the company’s workers a couple of weeks after the woman had dropped it off, they found a rare Apple I computer inside it. The computer is the first generation of hand-built computers which was created by Steve Wozniak back in 1976, when Apple and its legendary co-founder Steve Jobs operated out of a family garage.
The vintage Apple I computer, which the recycling firm sold for $200,000 to a private collection, is one of the nearly 200 first-generation desktop computers which were put together by Apple, the now-bigwig tech company co- founded by Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
