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The two computers that made Apple

The Vergecast

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Apple's Curveball

Bob says he got a call from Apple lawyers that said, hey, we're coming to get the computers. He had most of these on consignment and there was a clause in their contract that said we can just come pick them up at some point. And so they did. There are a bunch of, as he describes them, very large men showed up. They were ex-marines,. They're all six foot six. You know, and they're just these muscle men. But not only did they then take these computers to the dump for ostensibly no reason, but they like beat them to death, it sounds like they were just kind of mean about it.

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