They were going to be disposed of as normal WEEE while a slightly more attentive eye than others noticed them and saved them before they became rubble. It is the collection of Apple material proposed these days by RR Auction, on the input of a long-eyed enthusiast who in the landfill he found a small treasure. Stories like this are quite rare, and the reference is not to tens of thousands of dollar auctions with Apple products among the protagonists, but to the provenance of these objects here.
iPhone 2G, Apple-I and the company at auction usually have years of obsessive attention and care behind them from collectors who keep them for decades, even resisting the temptation to open them and use them even just for a few moments (but the willpower is well paid). In this case the material comes from “below” and the story will certainly have a happy ending. The objects, however, have a first owner of excellence: the now 79 year old Delbert W. Yocambetter known as Del Yocam, at the top of Apple from 1983 to 1989.
The Apple Lisa that belonged to Del Yocam at auction, in the second picture the bare Twiggy Drive
The most popular item of the lot is a Apple Lisa computers Comes with original boxes and manuals of the very rare Twiggy Drive, which consists of a dual 5.25-inch floppy disk drive with state-of-the-art features for the time such as the ability to vary engine RPM or non-opposite reading heads to reduce wear. Beautiful and probably of great collectors interest the label on the Lisa acknowledging Del Yocam with a May 1983 unit coming from “from the first batch”.
An item he has received so far 10 deals reaching $24,200, but the initial forecast by RR Auctions was to exceed 60 thousand (the deadline is one day away, the goal is still far away). Still within the lot the other objects have not reached inaccessible figures: there are three Apple IIGS well away from $1,000, and one “Apple’s 1 Millionth Macintosh Computer” that has yet to top $1,500. If you want to place an offer Below is the link, under the heading SOURCE.
