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

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

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Post by chaostheory »

jkestner wrote: post #43
tdicola wrote: post #28

Didn't one of the boards sell for almost $1M recently? Did the market for them drop massively or did some fool over pay by $800k for an Apple I?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2837776/vintage-apple-1... $905,000, and presumably there's a premium for being in working condition. I think there's also a small market of people who have the money and care to spend it on this, so prices can fluctuate quite a bit.

Considering the time for the sales transaction taking place (2 days?), I'm sure if they took it to an auction house it would fetch a much higher price. There's only 50 ever made and it's from a household name that even the fashion houses respect.

On the other side of the story, this story is totally genius marketing (if intended). I've been hearing this firm's name all day including their policy of sharing proceeds with people who donate.

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

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Post by bitJericho »

marincounty wrote: post #47
logn wrote: post #7

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?

I curious about the 50/50 split? It looks like a relatively new company.(couldn't find a review on Yelp, and 50 plus like on Facebook). I went to Clean Bay Area, under 'How much money can I make?'; The answer was scarce, and I would need to email them for details. Call me cynical, but while I feel this is a true story, I wonder if this is the first time they actually ponied up any money on donated equipment? That is…

Some people have empathy and integrity.

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

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Post by x0 »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #25
adventured wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not, the person was "triggered" by an artificially manufactured offense. Some people refer to it as outrage porn; the desire to seek even the smallest of possible things to generate anger, outrage, etc. which eventually becomes like an emotional addiction.

Please do not equivocate PTSD with offence. That is not what "triggered" means.

I agree with you, and it looks like I'm one of the only ones.

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

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Post by rimantas »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #59
jblow wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not at all true. For example, in new age communities, "triggered" is used very frequently to mean that someone's personal ego wires have been tripped -- and in fact the reason the word is used is because it's understood that "being triggered" is not that big a deal, it's part of being human, and one may get very upset in the moment but with perspective one sees it's fine. This is obviously very different from…

> For example, in new age communities, "triggered" is used very frequently to mean that someone's personal ego wires have been tripped What does a religious movement have to do with this?

It shows, that PTSD does not have monopoly on the word "triggered".

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

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

rimantas wrote: post #64
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For example, in new age communities, "triggered" is used very frequently to mean that someone's personal ego wires have been tripped What does a religious movement have to do with this?

It shows, that PTSD does not have monopoly on the word "triggered".

So? In the context of trigger warnings, the meaning is the PTSD one, and only the PTSD one.

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

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Post by spiritplumber »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #10
informatimago wrote: post #9

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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!

You are witnessed!

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

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Post by bontoJR »

I had some very old machines around, even if I am not even 30 yo, I love almost any kind of old machine I was able to collect.

I had a small collection since a couple of years ago composed by Sun Ultra-60, Next Workstation (working, but original HD was gone), Next Cube (never worked), Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Apple Macintosh (not working) and some others machines people were not interested anymore and I was able to collect for free. It was a quite good collection and funny to deal with in the spare time, but then, one day, my father decided to discard all of them because they were old and mostly broken. I was so disappointed it took me a while to realize it.

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

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Post by ericlang »

huac wrote: post #48
developer1 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, intentional clickbait title. A decent editor would not have allowed that through. "Discarded Apple I sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half". Not difficult.

Or perhaps a decent editor (of this Buzzfeed era) came up with it.

Decent at being obnoxious.

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

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Post by coldpie »

developer1 wrote: post #46
aerovistae wrote: post #22

had to reread this title like 10 times. kept reading it as "Apple [that] I discarded...." and kept trying to find that angle in the article. finally cracked the mystery, felt epicly stupid.

Same, intentional clickbait title. A decent editor would not have allowed that through. "Discarded Apple I sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half". Not difficult.

Let me know when you find a decent editor on the internet. Even quality publications like Ars let countless its/it's and sentences without verbs sneak through.
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