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.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:42PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:36PM
In stark contrast to many other computer manufacturers who make their products modifiable and upgradeable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:51PM
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:57PM
> Your Macbook Pro has soldered in memory because it improves battery life by nearly 20%.
You don't know much about computers, do you?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:06PM
That just makes the form factor smaller. It doesn't affect performance at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:32PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:27PM
Incorrect. It makes for a smaller form factor.
(this is fun!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:34PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @09:39PM
My rebuttal was about your penis size. Nice try, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @10:47PM
(Score: 1) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday June 04 2015, @09:06PM
I wouldn't usually bother with replying to an AC....but 20% really......you don't know how electricty works do you.
If you had claimed 1 - 2% I may have gone with a sure tha may be true but unlikely. But with a claim of 20% it is like you are either completely lacking understanding on the workings of electricity or you are trolling.
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