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Rare Apple computer sent to recycling

A recycling center in California's Silicon Valley is trying to find a woman who dropped off the old Apple computer.
A press preview at Christies on December 5, 2014 displays The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, as part of the auction houses inaugural Exceptional Sale in New York, taking place on December 11 at Rockefeller Center. 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. AFP PHOTO / Timothy A CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

MILPITAS, Calif. (AP) - It isn't as fast as most computers on the market today, and it lacks some of the bells and whistles modern devices have, but an Apple computer dating back to the mid 1970s is worth $200,000.

A recycling center in California's Silicon Valley is trying to find a woman who dropped off the old Apple computer. It turns out the Apple I is one of only 200 first-generation desktop computers assembled by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne back in 1976.

The recycling company sold the computer for $200,000 to a private collector. Since the company gives half of what it sells to the original owner, the woman can collect $100,000.

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