A California electronics recycling company has a $100,000 check for the woman who unwittingly donated a vintage Apple computer worth twice that amount.

A woman dropped off boxes of old electronics to the Clean Bay Area recycling company in early April.

A few weeks later the company started going through them. That is when an Apple I built by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne in 1976, was discovered, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Vice President Victor Gichun sold the rare find to a private collector for $200,000. The company policy is to split proceeds 50-50, so they are trying to find the woman who did not leave her name or get a receipt.

"To prove who she is," Gichun said to the San Jose Mercury News. "I just need to look at her."

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Ceudy Gutierrez reads a book to her 2-year-old son, Matias, at their home in Buford, GA, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Ceudy Gutierrez is struggling to make ends meet for herself and her three young kids following her husband’s ICE arrest earlier this fall. (Miguel Martinez/ AJC)

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