Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half

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Post by mmastrac » Sun, May 31, 2015, 6:43 PM UTC

Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half
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Post by smaili » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:08 PM UTC

You can't really blame the woman, something so old doesn't shout "Hey I'm worth hundreds of thousands!" to most people. But I am glad people at the depot recognized its value and didn't actually recycle it.

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Post by dang » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC

Url changed from http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mystery-woman-dumps-2..., which points to this.

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Post by mikek » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

This isn't exactly a mystery. They know where the woman lives.

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Post by SwellJoe » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:19 PM UTC

mikek wrote: post #4

This isn't exactly a mystery. They know where the woman lives.

On what do you base that assertion?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:21 PM UTC

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Post by logn » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:22 PM UTC

If they really can't find her, they should peruse the obits for her husband.

Edit: 3 downvotes and a bizarre reply to my comment about sexism. From the article, "He feels badly because the woman said her husband had died a couple of months earlier". How is my comment sexist? And how would you find the woman?

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Post by michaelhoffman » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:24 PM UTC

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They don't have it anymore, so they can't return it to her.

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Post by informatimago » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #2

You can't really blame the woman, something so old doesn't shout "Hey I'm worth hundreds of thousands!" to most people. But I am glad people at the depot recognized its value and didn't actually recycle it.

You can blame her. I can't count the reports of such cases, where they throw away valuable things, just because they're not all chrome and shiny.

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Post by pavel_lishin » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

informatimago wrote: post #9

smaili wrote: post #2

You can't really blame the woman, something so old doesn't shout "Hey I'm worth hundreds of thousands!" to most people. But I am glad people at the depot recognized its value and didn't actually recycle it.

You can blame her. I can't count the reports of such cases, where they throw away valuable things, just because they're not all chrome and shiny.

I compute! I am recycled! I compute again!