Recycling center looking for woman who left rare $200,000 Apple I computer

She doesn't know it yet, but an unidentified Bay Area woman has a $100,000 check waiting for her.

A local recycling center is searching for a woman who dropped off an extremely rare Apple I computer, and then left without providing her contact information. The facility later sold the computer for $200,000, and is now looking for the mystery woman, so they can split the money.

The woman dropped off several boxes in early April, and said she was cleaning out her garage after her husband recently died, San Jose Mercury news reported. CleanBayArea, the Milpitas, California, facility that accepted the items, had a backlog of donations at the time, and didn't go through the woman's boxes until two weeks later, according to the newspaper. Read more...