Indeed, a Sad Mac!
Call me sappy (I know I am) I could never think of throwing away any of my Macs!
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Indeed, a Sad Mac!
Call me sappy (I know I am) I could never think of throwing away any of my Macs!
Indeed, a Sad Mac!
Call me sappy (I know I am) I could never think of throwing away any of my Macs!
I feel the same way, I have a few non-working Macs in my garage that people keep asking why I still have them and all I say is that I plan to fix them...some day
I also forgot to mention the Apple IIc I found still in the box at a church, they were going to throw it away, I saved it. They also tried to give me an old Atari computer, I turned it down.
I feel the same way, I have a few non-working Macs in my garage that people keep asking why I still have them and all I say is that I plan to fix them...some day
IIc in box - awesome! Is it complete? The Ataris are also worth something... Just got from eBay an Atari 800XL in box missing only the power supply and TV switchbox - both of which I have somewheres....
Free stuff is good! I got some stuff free from a guy on Craigslist too last year. Oddball stuff such as an Apple Macintosh SE PC Drive Card in box. No PC drive though. haha
Well if you get anything let me know, I have 10 of them in my garage. Actually I think they are 7200's
I have a mac plus like that but its a 128k upgraded ... thats what most mac pluses with out the mac plus on the front are.
But my mac plus cam in a box full of all sorts. The original apple modem, imagewriter 1, Heep of cables and software & a apple HDSC 20. i got it all for £0.99 ( About $0.50 ).
I also got a IIci for free off Low end mac.
awaiting on my power mac 7500 which i got for free.
Actually, 99 pence is about US $2.00. But still a great deal!
I found a Color stylewriter 1500 lying in the hallway at my University's music school. I took it, since it was sitting next to the trash and was obviously for disposal!
Also, a friend of mine gave me a Powerbook 1400cs/133. He worked for my University's tech dept, and the laptop must have been some professors, ages and ages ago. He claimed it "didn't work," but I found it would boot, but didn't have an OS on it. Got an OS 8.0 disc from a friend and I'm up and running. RAM is maxed out and it has a 1GB hard drive... Pretty good for free!
I happen to have a PC drive and a few old SEs. If you are willing to part with the card, let me know.
That must have been a fun trip home. Those suckers are heavy!
Did you take that picture when you found it (You carry a camera while riding your bike???) or did you do a reenactment!!!!
I got a B&W G3 powermac for free from a friend. Now all I need is some OS X CDs and I will set it up as a file and print server.
Sweet!
I've had a 500 MHz G4 upgrade for one for like... 2 years without a Mac to put it in. hehe
Do auctions count?
The Mac Plus second to the left, I've had for 20 years.
A 7500 that seems to be only used for a very short time. They installed some sort of school software on it and put it back in the box. The case and insides are amazingly clean!
Not pictured:
2 B&W G3s
3 CRT Apple Displays
Couple of broken iMacs
An old Sony Trinitron video editing monitor
The Mac Plus second to the left, I've had for 20 years.
A 7500 that seems to be only used for a very short time. They installed some sort of school software on it and put it back in the box. The case and insides are amazingly clean!
Not pictured:
2 B&W G3s
3 CRT Apple Displays
Couple of broken iMacs
An old Sony Trinitron video editing monitor
I remember going to a school auction when I was younger and not a collector, I wish I could go back in time. It had a wall of compact Macs I swear it was 6 foot tall and 12 foot wide! and they had a few Mac XL's
8 years ago an old friend, who works for a school - they were dumping their Macs! He did save for me a few Classic II's and a really cool IIfx, which I understand is rare...