Quadra 950 on eBay - Insane Price?

dpaanlka · Jan 7, 2008

Can somebody explain to me why exactly this Quadra 950 is currently at $212 with 13 bids as I write this???

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Apple-M...ryZ80075QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The price, being the first thing I saw, led me to read the description looking for some outstanding or highly unique features of this particular system - but alas nothing. It appears to be a regular old Quadra.

I have two of these lying around with much more impressive specs - what am I missing here?

GimmeSlack12 · Jan 7, 2008

Here's my explanation:
People are dumb.

Maybe I should auction my LC.

dpaanlka · Jan 7, 2008

GimmeSlack12 said:
People are dumb.

Maybe I should auction my LC.

I haven't participated in eBay auctions for vintage Macs since, well, since my collection exceeded 80 systems. But I never recall such a frenzy over a piece of hardware like this.

Searching for "Quadra" does show a significantly lower number of systems available for auction than I can remember a few years back - there used to be dozens.

gkarris · Jan 7, 2008

this guy I know would get a couple of his friends to bid to make it look competitive and raise the selling price...

GimmeSlack12 · Jan 7, 2008

dpaanlka said:
..., well, since my collection exceeded 80 systems.

And you call yourself a collector... sheesh not even a 100 Macs. Though I remember drooling over the Quadras and other '040's back in the day.

dpaanlka · Jan 7, 2008

GimmeSlack12 said:
not even a 100 Macs.

Not even!

I've actually disposed of probably around 150 excess or duplicate systems that were "given" to me ("dumped on" might be a better term). Had no room - into the dumpster

GimmeSlack12 · Jan 7, 2008

I have memories of all my previous Macs but no love lost really. Seems like a trend of clamshell iBook threads going around at the moment. Not that I am that cold hearted, just lazy. Don't want to bother maintaining more than one or two systems.

techlover828 · Jan 7, 2008

dpaanlka said:
Not even!

I've actually disposed of probably around 150 excess or duplicate systems that were "given" to me ("dumped on" might be a better term). Had no room - into the dumpster

http://www.apple.com/environment/recycling/

ClassicMac247 · Jan 7, 2008

That is a high price for a machine such as the quadra 950. I have 1 quadra 700 and sold another quadra 700 which only sold for 75$ with a 16 inch monitor. :apple:

dpaanlka · Jan 7, 2008

techlover828 said:
http://www.apple.com/environment/recycling/

That doesn't really help someone in my situation.

RacerX · Jan 8, 2008

Seems like a pretty wimpy system to me... my Quadra 950 is set up as follows:

136 MB of memory
500 MB main drive, 9.1 GB secondary drive
Internal CD-ROM
2 MB of VRAM (originally shipped with 1 MB)
Apple PowerPC 601 upgrade (66 MHz with 1 MB of L2 cache)
Two Radius display cards
Three 21" Radius displays

Makes me wonder just how much I would get for my system.

Though not enough to ever put it up for sale.

mkjj · Jan 9, 2008

Wow, $375!

I've a boxed version, should make $500 easy!

ReanimationLP · Jan 9, 2008

Yay for idiots on eBay.

God, I'd love to have that much income to blow on an almost 15 year old computer system.

madmax_2069 · Jan 9, 2008

my god, those people are idiots on spending that much on that.

macEfan · Jan 9, 2008

I bought one last year for $30... guess it was a good investment

brad.c · Jan 9, 2008

macEfan said:
I bought one last year for $30... guess it was a good investment

I'd pay that to get the hardware failure car crashing sad mac sound in all it's quadraphonic glory.

Except that I wouldn't, really.

dpaanlka · Jan 9, 2008

binky2033 said:
I'd pay that to get the hardware failure car crashing sad mac sound in all it's quadraphonic glory.

Are you suggesting that Quadra 950s are prone to hardware failure or something?

Spock · Jan 10, 2008

dpaanlka said:
Are you suggesting that Quadra 950s are prone to hardware failure or something?

Only running System 7

brad.c · Jan 10, 2008

dpaanlka said:
Are you suggesting that Quadra 950s are prone to hardware failure or something?

Nope, just the RAM. I'd intentionally mismatch the sticks to force the crash for fun: it echoed through the office brilliantly.

David Schmidt · Jan 10, 2008

binky2033 said:
Nope, just the RAM. I'd intentionally mismatch the sticks to force the crash for fun: it echoed through the office brilliantly.

Suffering from memory loss at the moment... what's that app that lets you play the power-on and crash sounds of arbitrary Macs? Could I use it to experience a lo-fi version of said crash sound?

dpaanlka · Jan 10, 2008

David Schmidt said:
Suffering from memory loss at the moment... what's that app that lets you play the power-on and crash sounds of arbitrary Macs? Could I use it to experience a lo-fi version of said crash sound?

Mactracker

David Schmidt · Jan 10, 2008

dpaanlka said:
Mactracker

Ah, yes. So, I listened to the Quadra 950 sounds... very plain. I guess I'll have to search and tirelessly bid on eBay get the full experience. (Bringing the thread back around to the topic...

bartelby · Jan 10, 2008

GimmeSlack12 said:
Though I remember drooling over the Quadras and other '040's back in the day.

My first Mac was very nearly an 840AV. Eventually got a 7500

mr.666 · Jan 10, 2008

maybe someone wants to run BeOS?
but a old dual or quad clone wold be quicker.

killmoms · Jan 10, 2008

mr.666 said:
maybe someone wants to run BeOS?
but a old dual or quad clone wold be quicker.

Best reason to buy old pre-G3 machines, right there. I thought about hunting down a PowerMac 9600 for that sole purpose a few years ago, never got around to it though.

Quadra 950 on eBay - Insane Price?

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