Before you donate, make sure you are not giving away an Apple I!

Did you drop off a box of old technology at a Bay Area recycling center recently? You might have $100,000 waiting for you.

Clean Bay Area, a Milpitas-based e-recycling company, is looking for a woman who dropped off a box of her husband's old gadgets in April. As the Mecury News reports, that box of "junk" contained something that was actually quite valuable—an original Apple I computer.

Clean Bay Area sold the device to a private collector for $200,000, and they would like to give the donor half of that cash. But there's one problem—they don't know who she is.

The company's vice president, Victor Gichun, said the woman stopped by near the end of the day on a Friday and said she did not need a tax receipt. She simpy wanted to rid her garage of some clutter after her husband passed away, the Mercury News said.

Gichuan, however, said he remembers what she looks like, so all she has to do is return to the warehouse at 1310 Piper Drive in Milpitas to collect $100,000.

Over the years, Apple I computers have sold for hefty sums at auction. Last year, one sold for almost $1 million, though others have fetched $365,000 and $387,000.

The Apple I is the first computer made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. Only about 200 were made, and they originally sold for $666.