AppleDroid
macrumors 6502a
"it belongs in a museum!"
Apple's Original Corporate Papers Heading to Auction, Could Fetch $150,000
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Apple Corps
macrumors 68030
This guy is basically low income - never made any money - not even a millionaire...
coder12
macrumors 6502a
Luckily, I have a friend who is an expert in original Apple contracts from 1976. I'll get him on the phone to appraise it
Winni
macrumors 68040
No, that already makes two of us.
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Well, then he is in excellent company here. I doubt that there are many millionaires wasting their spare time on macrumors.com.
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AJ1BostonMASS
macrumors member
Am I, the only one who much rather would have that map of America?
Winni
macrumors 68040
Dumb??
This is an absolute gem of an item. It's a piece of Silicon Valley history, and not just any piece.
Yeah, sure. And you could build an awesome startup company for that kind of money. Somehow, the latter sounds like a much better investment to me than spending it on a thirty year old contract paper without any real value, neither historical nor otherwise. This is an expensive fan article, nothing else.
Thunderhawks
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jekyl
macrumors 6502
I would do it if I had the money to spare, then give it to the Smithsonian.
nylonsteel
macrumors 68000
re original article
yup - a historical document for sure
150K is upper limit price for this
80-100k is more reasonable
cmon aapl fan boys - step up and put your bids in
yup - a historical document for sure
150K is upper limit price for this
80-100k is more reasonable
cmon aapl fan boys - step up and put your bids in
nwcs
macrumors 68030
No. The item from George Washington is also more interesting.
M7ck
macrumors member
You seriously don't think this has historical value? The original documents of the worlds most valuable company?
Really?
ItTakesFaith
macrumors newbie
Ron Wayne has to go down as one of the WORST (OK, PC: "most unfortunate") businessmen in history! Seriously, this poor fool rolled around in bed for eleven nights, worried that Jobs & Woz were going to "ruin his good name and fortune"... until he sold...! Smooth...
With that kind of track record on business, Wayne should be working in government...!
Value?
Whether you think this is an historic document of just another piece of paper, its worth will,of course, be determined by whatever price it fetches at auction. My guess is Sotheby's has severely underestimated the price and it will go for just over $400,000.
Note: this should not be construed as a bid of any kind.
Whether you think this is an historic document of just another piece of paper, its worth will,of course, be determined by whatever price it fetches at auction. My guess is Sotheby's has severely underestimated the price and it will go for just over $400,000.
Note: this should not be construed as a bid of any kind.
Nope. Sounds vastly more interesting. Not $150k interesting, though.
Dumb??
This is an absolute gem of an item. It's a piece of Silicon Valley history, and not just any piece.
Yes. $150 million for a sheet of paper and roughly $149.85 million more than the "assessed" price would qualify is as dumb.
Macboy Pro
macrumors 6502a
How does that differ from any collectable item made of paper?
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I'm not so sure about that. In the recent PBS documentary about Jobs, Wayne was riding in an extremely large limo in Las Vegas. I don't think it was a prop.
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You could say that about anything. But it's not happening. $150K more or less, maybe. $150 million? No way.
AppleScruff1
macrumors G4
It's propriety material. Apple will probably send a security force and demand it be returned.
DTphonehome
macrumors 68000
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Who do you think kicks himself the most? Ron Wayne, Brian Dunkelman (left American Idol before it was popular), or Pete Best (original drummer for the Beatles)?
Who do you think kicks himself the most? Ron Wayne, Brian Dunkelman (left American Idol before it was popular), or Pete Best (original drummer for the Beatles)?
AppleScruff1
macrumors G4
In descending order, Best, Wayne, Dunkelman.
gnasher729
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And you are the genius who found him before he sold, offered him $1,000 instead of $800, and who is now worth several billions? Didn't think so.
What about every single guy who started a business and ended up with a huge pile of debt? And according to Wikipedia, Pete Best made more money than most people posting on MacRumors will make in their life.
I heard Paul Ceglia is bidding
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the8thark
macrumors 601
Jobs would have never had an inhouse Apple museum. Cause he hated looking back. He turfed all the old Macs onsite cause he only wanted to look into the future. Do Cook and co feel the same way?
In saying this I think a tech museum of Apple should buy this. So everyone can see this piece of history.
ThunderSkunk
macrumors 601
No, I didn't mean he was a bazillionare.
I meant he seemed like a really good-natured guy and happy enough to be that.
Only in the extremes is money proportionate to happiness, and it's always inversely proportional.
I meant he seemed like a really good-natured guy and happy enough to be that.
Only in the extremes is money proportionate to happiness, and it's always inversely proportional.