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Man selling a "priceless" 6100 on eBay
I don't see anything special about this machine. I have bought several ex-NASA Mac's, Livermore Lab Mac's, Los Alamos Mac's and they have all been in a rather stock form. Somehow this guy thinks a Mac is special because they used it at NASA.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160208959892
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160208959892
I think it'd be interesting to have a Mac from NASA...mostly because of its history 
He probably thinks it's the machine they used to send Armstrong and Co. to the moon...or something 
Kind of cool that it was used at NASA (just not $1000 cool)
Kind of cool that it was used at NASA (just not $1000 cool)
Chances are it was a home computer that just happened to belong to someone who worked at NASA... Nowhere in the item description does it say the machine was actually used at NASA [8)] ]'>
LOL I would NEVER pay even 1% of that for ANY performa.
I have won computers and gotten stuff in surplus auctions that had NASA, Livermore Labs, Los Alamos stickers and stamps on them with the hard drives pulled. They were just stock machine with nothing out of the ordinary about them.
Tom, this is a line pulled from his auction-
"I've done research to place value on this piece only to find that there is nothing compatible because of its origin (NASA)"
Sounds like he is stating it was used at NASA.
Hmm, I took that to mean that he already thought it was from NASA and was just doing a bit of research into the price. I don't see any NASA inventory stickers on it either, which is what makes me think that this is the case...
maybe there are some NASA's secretary love letters written in MS Word for mac ... [
] ]'> that could be interesting
] ]'> that could be interestingChrist...
Some Performas were just re-badged normal models. As this one was.
The Performa 6116CD is just a Power Mac 6100 with a CD-ROM drive standard, and a certain load of "home" applications included.
Definitely not worth $1000, but it is worth at least as much as a Power Mac 6100. With the printer, I'd pay $10.
"I've done research to place value on this piece only to find that there is nothing compatible because of its origin (NASA)"
LOL! It wont run anything. Idiot. Is a light bulb from TSAGI priceless? NO.
Is a lamp from nasa priceless? NO!
IDIOT!
LOL! It wont run anything. Idiot. Is a light bulb from TSAGI priceless? NO.
Is a lamp from nasa priceless? NO!
IDIOT!
He's dreaming.
I really doubt it's from anything other than a secretary's office, if it was ever at NASA at all. I mean, first off, that terrible Performa Plus display would not be the first choice for anybody doing anything with graphics, or at resolutions greater than 640x480.
Plus, it's a Performa. Sure, they're almost identical to their Power Macintosh derivatives, but often the Performas will be lower spec'd. This one is only 60MHz (as were all the 611X machines), and will probably have little or no L2 cache, for example.
The guy's English is atrocious, to boot. If you want that damn much for a POS computer that can't even be proven to have originated from NASA or anybody associated with NASA, at least make the listing coherent. And proof-read it.
Plus, it's a Performa. Sure, they're almost identical to their Power Macintosh derivatives, but often the Performas will be lower spec'd. This one is only 60MHz (as were all the 611X machines), and will probably have little or no L2 cache, for example.
The guy's English is atrocious, to boot. If you want that damn much for a POS computer that can't even be proven to have originated from NASA or anybody associated with NASA, at least make the listing coherent. And proof-read it.
Did they actually go to the moon? [He probably thinks it's the machine they used to send Armstrong and Co. to the moon...or something
Kind of cool that it was used at NASA (just not $1000 cool)
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wow wtf haha weird.... It's priceless how stupid some people are these days.
He has it back up for $110 shipped starting. Maybe he took the insults to heart. But it won't stop me from sending more.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160213431675
I actually had a Lisa and a Plus I bought from Nasa when I was about 12, at the Picnic. My dumbass brother sold the Lisa for 200. I still have Plus. When you live in this town its not unusual to see gov't tags on everyone's stuff.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160213431675
I actually had a Lisa and a Plus I bought from Nasa when I was about 12, at the Picnic. My dumbass brother sold the Lisa for 200. I still have Plus. When you live in this town its not unusual to see gov't tags on everyone's stuff.
I think it's pretty stupid that he didn't even test the computer to verify what he claimed. :lol:
And I have a 7100 that came from the Genentech Clean Room. It has Genentech engraved on the case and it was shockingly clean for a 10 year old machine (when I bought it).
It's less clean now.
It's less clean now.
$100 shipping kills it. I don't see anything in that collection that's worth $100. Even the software is all common as dirt stuff. I can get as much of that as I want from Craigslist or Freecycle for free or close to it.
$9.99 RESERVE NOT MET plus $60 shipping. That's still $70 for what is a $10-$20 computer at best. Even the crap software that comes with it doesn't push the value up by very much.
Someone should tell him to put it on his local Craigslist. Local pickup is the only way he is going to get rid of that thing.
Well duh, he can't boot it up because the self-destruct devices NASA implanted in the HDD might go off! Sheesh! You gotta think these things through, man... :
Hmmm...if it really was used at NASA, maybe there's some unretouched Moon/Mars photos on the hard drive. That would make it worth it to a UFO coverup conspiracy nut.
It got the opening 9.99 bid but no sale, so someone is obviously dumb enough to think this thing is worth at least $70.
Or someone was unobservant enough to not notice the $60 shipping charge; and/or is local to the seller, and figured he/she could pick it up locally.