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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 04 2015, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the say-what??? dept.

The San Jose Mercury News reports

A South Bay [Milpitas, California] recycling firm is looking for a woman who, in early April, dropped off boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her house after her husband died. About two weeks later, the firm, Clean Bay Area, discovered inside one of the boxes a rare find: a vintage Apple I, one of only about 200 first-generation desktop computers put together by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne in 1976.

The recycling firm sold the Apple I this month for $200,000 to a private collection, Vice President Victor Gichun said. And now, because company policy is to split proceeds 50-50 with the donor, he's looking for the mystery woman who refused to get a receipt or leave her name.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:08PM (#192066)
    I'd say OP has education, but the sort you don't agree with.
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday June 07 2015, @03:04AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Sunday June 07 2015, @03:04AM (#193119) Journal

    Ok, seeing as how I have 2 disagree mods and no real refutation, here it is [newscientist.com].

    Granted, this is far from a diagnostic test. I hope one day there is a diagnostic test. I remember reading a piece from the American Family Association [afa.net] that stated that being raised as the wrong gender causes profound psychological damage. This is absolutely true.

    I'm lucky in this respect. I was able to live as a girl and a woman from an early age. Yet, I've observed that other trans women have suffered sometimes insurmountable psychological damage after being forced to live as a gender they are not. I weep for my sisters who have taken their own lives.

    None of us gets a choice as for what gender we are. We merely need to accept it and move forward. Fighting it is nonsensical, especially when reproductive gender does not match mental gender. Are you your vagina or are you your mind? I think mental gender is the true determinant of gender.