A Macintosh II Makes An APPLE Store Appearance !

#1 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 18:16

Have a look > "A Macintosh II In An APPLE Store"

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#2 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 18:42

I do not why Cult Of Mac is posting some old stuff ...

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/04/30.10.shtml

I rememberd this seen on macobserver years ago ... (2001)

#3 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 19:00

I do not why Cult Of Mac is posting some old stuff ...
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/04/30.10.shtml

I rememberd this seen on macobserver years ago ... (2001)

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#4 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 21:15

Not a "real" Apple store. It's a specialist/auth. retailer. If you read the macobserver article you'll see how they literally threw away hundreds of old Macs and they used - not old Mac IIs - but Mac IIfx comptuers to make the couch. What a waste of rare IIfx'es.

#5 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 22:13

I would think they made that couch before the IIfx had much collectors value (2001 was not too hot for 68030 Macs).

Besides a large couch would have cost a bunch of money compared to recycling those IIfxs.

#6 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 22:17

They could switch them all on in winter and it then would be a heated couch!

#7 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 22:24

I wonder if the motherboards are still in them. They could all be salvaged out. On second thought, they probably had to fill the cases with something to strengthen them, so they're all ruined.

#8 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 22:42

IIfxs aren't rare...

#9 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 - 23:07

I think they are, do the packrats here have 2 dozen of them between us (I have 2)? This is where I would expect many to have ended up.

#10 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - 02:45

Our local privately owned Mac store uses old compact Macs as (gasp!) DOORSTOPS!

The poor SE/30 really makes me sad, whenever I see it out in the rain...

#11 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - 04:30

Our local privately owned Mac store uses old compact Macs as (gasp!) DOORSTOPS!
The poor SE/30 really makes me sad, whenever I see it out in the rain...

That really sucks. If I had a store I would have various old Macs doing some task in the store. For example they could be cash registers. About 10 years ago I went to the Rice University bookstore. They used Macs as their cash registers and it was really cool. I'm not sure if they're a Mac school anymore though - University of Houston certainly isn't >

#12 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 - 23:20

So does one of the Apple Specialist shops in my area. They use, or at least used to use, an SE as a doorstop.

#13 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 - 20:38

The computer store in the bookstore of my university has a Classic II MacQuarium.