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#287821 - 04/10/2006 05:10 Woz's business card for sale on eBay.
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	Ok, a lot of you guys/gals know that I am into Segway Polo. Woz (he's also on "the team") gave me one of his metal business cards. He also handed one to Steven Colbert when he was on the show. I've been thinking of putting mine on eBay ever since just to see what it would sell for... Well... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200033851208 http://digg.com/apple/I_m_selling_Woz_s_business_card_as_featured_on_the_Colbert_Report I'm not doing it for profit. Since the bid has gone so high, I'm going to take the team to lunch with the cash... The internet(s), like society in general, will always amaze me. :-) - Jon
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#287822 - 04/10/2006 05:17 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
loren carpal tunnel Registered: 23/08/2000 Posts: 3826 Loc: SLC, UT, USA	Damn... I need to get down to Sunnyvale and see you guys play one day. _________________________ \|\| loren \|\|
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#287823 - 04/10/2006 06:36 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	c h f e w Ok- cell, home, fff--... ffff--... (hmm), email, web? ffff-- FFFF-- Fark ID? Free Willy? Fa-la-la? Freebird! _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#287824 - 04/10/2006 06:41 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: Robotic]
Schido enthusiast Registered: 29/03/2005 Posts: 364 Loc: Probably lost somewhere in Wal...	fax? _________________________ Empeg Mk1 #00177, 2.00 final, hijack 4.76
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#287825 - 04/10/2006 10:48 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
ithoughti old hand Registered: 17/07/2001 Posts: 721 Loc: Boston, MA USA	Segway Polo? For reals? wow, it doesn't get much nerdier than that! _________________________ --------- //matt
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#287826 - 04/10/2006 12:54 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: ithoughti]
furtive old hand Registered: 14/08/2001 Posts: 886 Loc: London, UK	Who in blue blazez is Woz? _________________________ Mk2a RioCar 120Gb - now sold to the owner of my old car Rio Karma - now on ebay...
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#287827 - 04/10/2006 13:01 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: furtive]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Computer. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#287828 - 04/10/2006 13:15 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Neat card! But I bet an origianal card from... say ~20 years ago might be worth more. _________________________ Glenn
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#287829 - 04/10/2006 13:19 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: Schido]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Quote: fax? What is this 'fax' of which you speak? /duh! //who faxes things? _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#287830 - 04/10/2006 13:21 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: Robotic]
Schido enthusiast Registered: 29/03/2005 Posts: 364 Loc: Probably lost somewhere in Wal...	It's what replaced telex _________________________ Empeg Mk1 #00177, 2.00 final, hijack 4.76
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#287831 - 04/10/2006 13:24 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3584 Loc: Columbus, OH	Quote: Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Computer. Not only that, but of the pair he'd be consider the uber-geek, and as such, maintains an elevated status among many of the geeks of the world. _________________________ ~ John
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#287832 - 04/10/2006 14:32 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: ithoughti]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Quote: Segway Polo? For reals? wow, it doesn't get much nerdier than that! So what else would a Segway be good for? [As if I'd known Segway polo existed befor today.] _________________________ Glenn
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#287833 - 04/10/2006 16:55 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: gbeer]
Waterman981 old hand Registered: 14/02/2002 Posts: 804 Loc: Salt Lake City, UT	Quote: Quote: Segway Polo? For reals? wow, it doesn't get much nerdier than that! So what else would a Segway be good for? [As if I'd known Segway polo existed befor today.] Golf! _________________________ -Michael #040103696 on a shelf Mk2a - 90 GB - Red - Illuminated buttons
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#287834 - 04/10/2006 19:46 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: Robotic]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Quote: /duh! //who faxes things? We do at work, anyone who has to send a legally binding document quickly without having to wait for the postal service. I don't know if the law's changed but email won't suffice. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#287835 - 05/10/2006 07:41 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: andym]
boxer pooh-bah Registered: 16/04/2002 Posts: 2011 Loc: Yorkshire UK	No, it hasn't, and there are very specific(& V expensive) requirements for emailing invoices, as well. Before I retired it was something that I investigated at great length: By that time, invoices were our only outgoing mail and junk mail, our only incoming mail. To this day every publisher sends you a copy of the publication your advertisement appeared in, and some agencies have a whole department to check, cut out and send them to the client. In job advertising it's simpler, if you don't get any replies then we'll investigate, so for over 20 years, we binned forests of newsprint: 10 ads. in one paper; 10 copies of the newspaper! Only in recent years have we been able to arrange for recycling, but it's still a waste of resource, not to mention mailing costs. _________________________ Politics and Ideology: Not my bag
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#287836 - 05/10/2006 08:16 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: andym]
frog51 pooh-bah Registered: 09/08/2000 Posts: 2091 Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland	aye - we use fax a lot - usually followed up by paper documents - even where we also use electronically signed files. _________________________ Rory MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock
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#287837 - 06/10/2006 18:58 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Wow- currently at $530! That's some lunch you're going to go to. _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#287838 - 09/10/2006 22:37 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: Robotic]
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	http://digg.com/apple/Follow_up_DIGG_Woz_signs_metal_business_card_and_book_for_eBay_winner - Jon
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#287839 - 10/10/2006 02:37 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14491 Loc: Canada	Awesome, dude. Totally awesome. You rock! Cheers
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#287840 - 10/10/2006 13:29 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: jbauer]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	It's now made it to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/10/woz-business-card-sells-for-560-on-ebay/ What bothers me about that story is the author's projection of morality. Why SHOULD the money go to anything but lunch? I suppose they don't know how much a meal at a restaurant other than Burger King will cost for more than 2 people. _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#287841 - 10/10/2006 13:51 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: hybrid8]
Cris pooh-bah Registered: 06/02/2002 Posts: 1904 Loc: Leeds, UK	I have to say, this is one of the best book promotions I have every seen I worked on me, ordered it from Amazon. Cheers Cris.
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#287842 - 10/10/2006 23:10 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: hybrid8]
FireFox31 pooh-bah Registered: 19/09/2002 Posts: 2494 Loc: East Coast, USA	Quote: projection of morality Right on. It's just an Internet experiment for fun between geeks. That's the nature of the Internet right there. Good links. _________________________ - FireFox31 110gig MKIIa (30+80), Eutronix lights, 32 meg stacked RAM, Filener orange gel lens, Greenlights Lit Buttons green set
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#287843 - 10/10/2006 23:40 Re: Woz's business card for sale on eBay. [Re: hybrid8]
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	Thanks for posting that link to the TUAW blog entry. I wouldn't have known it was there. I just posted a reply to Laurie there. - Thanx - Jon
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