Apple _1_ on ebay???

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jul 1 12:18:25 CDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:48 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> 
> > I have not have to time to look at ebay recently.  I just did and
> > saw this:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80286&item=5213140640
> > &rd=1
> >
> > Somebody has put an Apple 1 up, it has been there for five days and
> > nobody has mentioned it here???
> >
> > Is everybody on vacation???
> 
> There is absolutely no evidence this is an Apple-1.

Far as I can tell, there's not even any evidence that it's an Apple at
all. Lots of keyboards from the era of wooden-cased machines look very
similar, and that photo's too small to really make anything out. 

I've seen some *really* bad wooden-cased computers before... :)

> This is a mystery grab bag auction, but the bag has a turd in it.

A wooden turd...




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