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Woman Who Recycled Rare Apple Computer Has $100,000 Waiting for Her

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An original Apple computer, now known as the Apple-1, which was designed and hand-built in 1976 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is shown at a press preview at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., on June 24, 2013.Tony Avelar—EPA
By Justin Worland

A Silicon Valley recycling firm is offering $100,000 to a woman who discarded a rare Apple 1 computer after it sold for $200,000 at a private auction.

The computer was hidden in several boxes donated by a woman who was cleaning out her garage after her husband died, CleanBayArea Vice President Victor Gichun told NBC Bay Area. She neither requested a tax receipt, nor left her contact information, and the boxes went unchecked for weeks.

“We really couldn’t believe our eyes. We thought it was fake,” Gichun said of the find.

CleanBayArea is looking to find the woman in order to evenly split the proceeds from the sale with her. Apple 1 was the original computer built by co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976; only around 200 were made.

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