Forget selling this for private ownership, something like this (along with the George Washington letter) belongs in the Smithsonian.
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There's nothing here beyond historical significance for a later generation. A similar document for HP or IBM would be of greater significance imo. Give Apple 30 more years to decide how great they really are.
Smithsonian? Hardly.
It would be a nice addition for the Computer History Museum, which is in Silicon Valley - just a few kilometres from Infinite Loop.
If not, then we learn that even *LTD*'s Apple worship has limits....
Not his worship necessarily - but his bank account
The truly iFaithful would take out second mortgages to support the insane profit margins of the one true consumer electronics company - even to enshrine the relics of the prophets of the almighty Apple.
I hope that we don't soon hear of people hawking reliquaries with "bits of Steve" in them.
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There was a story a few years ago he is living in a trailer park in Reno and gets a "consolation check" to keep him satiated. From what I was told from Apple's first generation, if he stayed around, Apple would have never made it. Supposedly he was bought out since he was in the way with other agendas. A similar story was passed around with one of the founders of Cisco. Many times, when a company starts its first big stride a few founders need jettisoned for group survival.
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I bet good money Woz will dump a load of cash for these letters and then donate it to a proper institute. Makes a great tax deduction.
Good guy for sure, but he is not a rich man financially.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7624539/US-pensioner-Ronald-Wayne-gave-up-15bn-slice-of-Apple.html
What a bunch of junk but fangirls have to have their fix.
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haha i did. been such a fangirl of apple in the late 80 and into the 90 I could not help it. Can't say the same for my Cisco stocks but oh well you win some you loose some.
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haha i did. been such a fangirl of apple in the late 80 and into the 90 I could not help it. Can't say the same for my Cisco stocks but oh well you win some you loose some.