A file picture taken during a press preview at Christie’s auction house in New York on December 5, 2014 shows ‘The Ricketts’ Apple-1 Personal Computer. Named after its first owner Charles Ricketts, this example is the only known surviving Apple-1 documented to have been sold directly by Steve Jobs to an individual from his parents’ garage. It is estimated at $400,000 – 600,000, the highest estimate yet for an original Apple-1 offered at auction. A Silicon Valley recycling company on June 1, 2015 was searching for a woman who dropped off a rare Apple computer subsequently snapped up by a collector for $200,000. The woman didn't leave her name or ask for a receipt when she dropped off a box of unwanted gadgets, including a first-generation Apple I computer considered a coveted collectable by computer history buffs, according to US media reports. Workers at the Clean Bay Area recycling specialty firm in Silicon Valley said the woman stopped by in April and told of being on a mission to get rid of clutter from her house after the death of her husband. AFP PHOTO
SAN FRANCISCO: A Silicon Valley recycling company on Monday was searching for a woman who dropped off a rare Apple computer subsequently snapped up by a collector for $200,000.