Time to change the Subject Line! Re: E-bay complaints

[Joe R.]

At 11:46 AM 7/7/05 -0500, you wrote:
>On 7/7/05, Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>> One of these days I'll find that Apple 1 board in the scrap boards bin :)
>
>Isn't there a list member who worked for HP or some other (non-Apple)
>Bay-area employer that passed up an Apple I, unassembled, in a baggie,
>for like $5 at a garage sale many years ago?  the "non-Apple" is part
>of the story, because, ISTR, they passed it up _because_ it was an
>Apple and they worked for "the other guys".
>
>Ring any bells?
>


  That wasn't me but about 15 or 20 years ago I saw an ad in a local
newspaper (IIRC) for an Apple 1 for something like $75. I remember thinking
that it was a real part of computer history and someone should buy it and
save it. Now I wish I'd done it!

   Joe