(Dagbladet): A woman who owned an Apple 1 computer – the first edition of the motherboard to it eventually so iconic company – had no idea what treasure she put on when she delivered the rare specimen for recycling.
A woman in the 60s in California emptied namely the garage after her husband had died.
A number of electronic items were left at recycling company CleanBayArea in April when the woman decided to clean out the garage, the company said on its website.
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Neither she nor the staff at recycling company ante what the woman left in cardboard boxes, and she left off without giving any contact details.
When an employee a few weeks later opened one of the boxes revealed Apple 1 computers themselves.
The company sold since it submitted the motherboard for over 1.5 million (200 $ 000 ) on a private auction.
Recycling firm has an agreement to split the profits 50/50 with the person who has filed the object, and consequently is searching for the woman who supplies machinery anonymously.
– Help us find this woman, so she can get the check that awaits her, the company said on its website.
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Around two hundred models of Apple-1 computer was built in his time.
Apple-1 was no immediate success for the young Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and they did not sell the machines themselves. It was only when Paul Terell, owner of one of the world’s first data center – The Byte Shop – ordered 50 copies and sold them for $ 666.66 in 1976 dollars (about 20,000 Norwegian kroner today), sales began to take off.
First, around 50 copies built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in the late Steve Jobs’ garage. One of those copies were sold at an auction last fall for 5.9 million.
It is believed that there are more than a dozen of the original Apple your computer that still exist.
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