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Found a 1996 Performa 6300 sealed in box
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That is a great condition item! What are you plans with the item? If I were you I would make a collection.
Reminds me of the person who procured a 20th Anniversary Mac a few years ago, the unboxing video was kinda cool...
20th Anniversary Mac unboxing and first boot
20th Anniversary Mac unboxing and first boot
Thats so cool, reminds me of the time I found a IBM PS/2 Model 80 still in the box, with the factory image of Windows 3.1. Wont say what I paid. But yeah. Was a cool find ( still have it ).
I'd love an old Brand new Mac to go alongside it
I would love that for my collection. Performas aren't really as sought-out and valuable as a classic 1980s Mac or something. However, to a collector like myself, that is the coolest thing! I envy your luck. If it were myself, I would keep it boxed. It's a shame to not use it and display it, but taking it out suddenly has it shed its title of being boxed and never used. Not sure if that is as important to someone who (I am assuming) doesn't collect, as it is to a collector. If shipping weren't an issue, I would love to acquire that from you.
My guess is they either won it or it was given to them as a gift and they really didn't know what to do with it. I doubt they went and spent the money on it new and then never bothered to set it up if it were something they really wanted.
I see someone revived this dead thread, so you must let us all know. It has been more than a year, what happened to this machine?
Pre-G3 vintage Macs with all their original packaging are uncommon; sealed-in-the-box unopened examples like this are fairly rare.
The 6300 series was not a memorable Mac, but from a vintage Mac collecting standpoint it's a really neat find.
The 6300 series was not a memorable Mac, but from a vintage Mac collecting standpoint it's a really neat find.
Man, I am jealous and really want that Mac. xD Where are you located? Whatever you do, do NOT open it. I wish I was nearby
Hopefully if you sell it or give it to someone, they won't open it.
Personally, I would open the machine to check everything out. You never know; leaking batteries, bad parts, etc. I knew someone who opened a new in the box iMac G3 only to find the battery had just started to leak and the original hard drive was dead. You do not want hard drives sitting in the parked position for too long because doing so can cause issues like that. IIRC, this is a SCSI drive based computer meaning the drives aren't cheap anymore.
Wow, finding a new-in-box iMac G3 is pretty amazing. Nobody really would have left a computer like that sealed in the box back then. Did he document it?
Yeah I remember Apple had that small period where PPC machines still had SCSI drive. As a general rule of thumb I always say PPCs are IDE, but these early ones you never know. Apple didn't move away from the SCSI optical drive till the B&W correct? Or was it the beige G3s?
Yeah he did and it's online somewhere. I want to say Vimeo but I'm not 100% certain. I know he didn't put it on YouTube.
EDIT: Yep, here is the link to the video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/88618615.
The consumer Performa line used the then inferior PATA/IDE hard drives in all but the Performa 6100 series. Every other model had a PATA/IDE hard drive and a SCSI optical drive. The Power Macintosh line machiens that weren't a relabeled Performa had a SCSI hard drive and optical drive in nearly every model. The beige G3 had both PATA/IDE and SCSI hard drive connections with SCSI finally being removed with the B&W G3.
"Check out all this Styrofoam. Horrible for the environment but Apple still used it back then along with everyone else before the whole green movement took shape."
Doesn't Apple still ship their macs with Styrofoam? The only reason they use less is because they don't use CRTs or the machines got smaller. With every new mac that I've gotten, I've been disappointed to see they are still using that crap as it's almost impossible to find a place that recycles it.
Cool, thanks for the link! I have heard of boxed 1990s Macs, but never an iMac G3. This was for sure a computer that nobody wanted to keep in the box.
I recently bought a(well used) MDD, and the seller shipped it to me in the original box. Although the computer itself had plenty of mileage on it, most of the other stuff was undisturbed.
For me it was the best of both worlds, as it was like unboxing a new computer for me with no worries about hurting the collector value.
Needless to say, I also had to clear out some space in the closet to keep the box!
BTW, with regard to the IDE/SCSI discussions:
My Beige G3 is all IDE, including the CD-ROM and ZIP drive.
My slightly older 8500 is 100% SCSI. It does not have a ZIP drive, but the CD-ROM and both hard drives(one of which I added myself) are SCSI. I got a bit of an education in setting drivers on internal SCSI drives when I installed the second hard drive in that computer-something I'd never had to deal with before. My 7100(I think it dates to 1993 or so) is also all SCSI. Neither of these computers have any on-board SCSI support, or at least not that I'm aware of.
I seem to recall reading that even as late as the Quicksilver G4, SCSI drives were a BTO option. This would, of course, require a PCI SCSI controller card as the Quicksilver logic board only has IDE.
Yeah, I got my Quicksilver with its box+unopened manuals+the original receipts. I got with it the 17-inch Studio Display in the box. Both are in good condition but were obviously used. It's cool, though, to get the feeling up opening up one of these old computers as if it were brand new.
My first mac was a Performa 6290, so this is pretty cool.
I still have the packaging for it, although the box is pretty trashed after 20 years. Ironically the box for my StyleWriter is in better condition even though the printer is in a landfill somewhere...
I still have the packaging for it, although the box is pretty trashed after 20 years. Ironically the box for my StyleWriter is in better condition even though the printer is in a landfill somewhere...