Lost Steve Jobs time capsule still missing, 29 years later

The Aspen Time Tube, containing Steve Jobs' mouse, which was buried in 1983, and never found.

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Somewhere under Aspen, Colo., a time capsule containing Steve Jobs' mouse has been sitting and waiting to be unearthed. Since 1983. And no one knows where it is.

That's what blogger Marcel Brown wrote this morning, explaining that the time capsule, known as the Aspen Time Tube and buried in conjunction with the 1983 International Design Conference there, is lost and those looking for it are facing considerable odds against success.

According to a 2010 article in the Glenwood Springs (Colo.) Post Independent, the Aspen Time Tube was buried in June, 1983 and contained a number of items, ranging from a 1983 copy of "Vogue" magazine to a Rubik's Cube to an eight-track Moody Blues recording to "a six-pack of beer for the 'hot and sweaty' diggers who would uncover the capsule."

Steve Jobs, unveiling the iPad in 2010.

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But unbeknownst to the Post Independent, it seems there was one more item in the capsule: the Lisa mouse that Steve Jobs used as he gave the "... [Read more]