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Most epic trade/conquest?
So I trade a p4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram, Gateway that I never really used to ckhthd for his huge collection of macs and mac stuff. Never owing a mac except an apple II many years ago I was PUMPED to say the least! So I cruise over to his house at on Thursday and as I get out of my friends car I am stunned by how much stuff im greeted by. I get the following:
1 G4 Sawtooth 400mhz
2 G3 B/W 350mhz
2 Beige G3 (one pizzabox one tower)
2 Mac IIci
1 LC III
1 Quadra 650
1 Quadra 610
3 Apple 13" RGB monitors
2 21 Apple studio display monitors B/W style/era
1 17 inch Apple studio display B/W
1 external HD
1 External CD ROM Apple brand
External backup drive system
1 Apple Image writer II printer
1 HB deskjet apple printer
apx 8 keyboards and mice (Apple) ADB
2 USB keyboards
a bunch of
boxed software.
a box of various cables and hard drives, adaptors etc.
collection of all the Mac Operating systems from 6-9
OSX 10.28
A big box of mac books
and a box of ram from pc100/133 to 33pin ram
and more stuff I can't recall
It FILLED the trunk of my friends lincon and the back seat, and the back was very low to the ground from the weight, and me and my two friends had to sit in the front on the way home lol. I have been working like crazy on the B/W and g4 sawtooth macs so far and am having a blast on 10.4.11 on the sawtooth.
I let my buddy who drove me there have one of the 21' studio moniters as a gift, and wow is it a huge upgrade form his 17' LCD @1280x1024
*pics*
http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s128/xypex982/the%20trade/
1 G4 Sawtooth 400mhz
2 G3 B/W 350mhz
2 Beige G3 (one pizzabox one tower)
2 Mac IIci
1 LC III
1 Quadra 650
1 Quadra 610
3 Apple 13" RGB monitors
2 21 Apple studio display monitors B/W style/era
1 17 inch Apple studio display B/W
1 external HD
1 External CD ROM Apple brand
External backup drive system
1 Apple Image writer II printer
1 HB deskjet apple printer
apx 8 keyboards and mice (Apple) ADB
2 USB keyboards
a bunch of
boxed software.
a box of various cables and hard drives, adaptors etc.
collection of all the Mac Operating systems from 6-9
OSX 10.28
A big box of mac books
and a box of ram from pc100/133 to 33pin ram
and more stuff I can't recall
It FILLED the trunk of my friends lincon and the back seat, and the back was very low to the ground from the weight, and me and my two friends had to sit in the front on the way home lol. I have been working like crazy on the B/W and g4 sawtooth macs so far and am having a blast on 10.4.11 on the sawtooth.
I let my buddy who drove me there have one of the 21' studio moniters as a gift, and wow is it a huge upgrade form his 17' LCD @1280x1024
*pics*
http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s128/xypex982/the%20trade/
To the lounge with ye...
Is that an FDHD Unidisk 3.5? I never knew there was such a thing! All 4 of them that I've ever had were double-density.
AWESOME haul!
AWESOME haul!
Thanks, umm not sure to be honest Dennis, what makes you say that?
The price was most certainly right. 
Looked it up, and indeed it is an "Apple FDHD External" drive, compatible with both Apple II and Mac. Very cool. You could read HD disks with a Mac Plus with that drive.
WOAH. You got all that for a P4? Don't they give them away in breakfast cereals these days?
OK, I won't argue. EPIC.
OK, I won't argue. EPIC.
Yep, that's a pretty epic conquest. And the trade meant you got rid of a PC, making it super-epic.
What is this?
I think it is a ram upgrade for the card but any idea on how much it would upgrade it by? I dont have any vga setups to try it out on.
I think it is a ram upgrade for the card but any idea on how much it would upgrade it by? I dont have any vga setups to try it out on.
not bad. I traded an IBM NetVista Pentium 2.63Ghz to MacDan (Which he still needs to ship the trade) for a Sawtooth G4. Hopefully that comes soon (Hint hint MacDan 
, J/K)
, J/K)
I once traded a LaserWriter Plus and a IIx for a boxed Mac 128K. Still had the plastic wrap and everything on it.
Wow, that was an excellent conquest. That's probably the best trade (on your end) that I have seen. When I sold my 128k Mac that I got for free without keyboard/mouse/disks, I got like $200 on eBay, and it was heavily Yellowed!
Some dude in Japan bought it. He worked at a PDA Company, since I translated his Company name, and it was something related to a PDA Hardware company. I hope he put it to good use...
Those crazy Japanese and retro horde-ness
Super-Epic to say the least!!! Congrats dude!
My most epic conquest was probably the second time I bought from the school auctions, from Klein ISD. I rented an 18 foot U-Haul and she loaded 5 pallets directly on the truck. The first time I bought from the auctions, it was from Humble ISD and I only rented a Ford cargo van for 2 pallets. Despite saving me tons of time though renting trucks/vans is too expensive so I don't do it anymore. I did get to borrow a Ford Explorer last time I went to Humble, that saved me some time instead of doing 2 trips.
I'm 99% certain that's a DVD hardware decoder card, for playing video DVDs under OS 9. If the card itself is a Rage 128, I think we can say for sure that's what it is. It's not supported under OS X
@xypex982, Bunsen is right. Thats the DVD decoder on a 128. My B&W G3 came with one. AFAIK it doesn't work under OS X.
My most epic liberation must still be the one I did in Cleveland 3 years ago.
Drove up for a free 950 PS I needed at the time and hoping to snag misc cables from a guy who needed space back.
Ended up with the following (all free):
Shelf full of boxed Mac graphics apps and utils for 68k and early ppc
Boxed Apple II games
A stack of nubus cards including 2 radius rockets
WGS 95 in mint condition with the 5 drive tray
spare Q950 with a couple sets of 16MB SIMMs
a SCSI tower with 3 9GB AV drives and a 1.3GB MO drive
A huge box full of 1.3GB MO 5.25" media, half shrinkwrapped
misc cables and terminators
A/UX for the wgs95 shrinkwrapped and never opened in the box along with all manuals, apple branded DDS tape and tape cleaner, and the 4 never used feet for the wgs95.
Filled up my trunk and back seat all for free.
Drove up for a free 950 PS I needed at the time and hoping to snag misc cables from a guy who needed space back.
Ended up with the following (all free):
Shelf full of boxed Mac graphics apps and utils for 68k and early ppc
Boxed Apple II games
A stack of nubus cards including 2 radius rockets
WGS 95 in mint condition with the 5 drive tray
spare Q950 with a couple sets of 16MB SIMMs
a SCSI tower with 3 9GB AV drives and a 1.3GB MO drive
A huge box full of 1.3GB MO 5.25" media, half shrinkwrapped
misc cables and terminators
A/UX for the wgs95 shrinkwrapped and never opened in the box along with all manuals, apple branded DDS tape and tape cleaner, and the 4 never used feet for the wgs95.
Filled up my trunk and back seat all for free.
Ok, thanks for the help, so ill just pull it off when I pop it back in the B/W since I put panther on them.
Well, if you even want to watch DVDs on that machine, you can always reboot into 9. Or of course get a better video card.
If you decide to sell the DVD card ....
If you decide to sell the DVD card ....
my best conquest was getting a mac tv for $25 at a garage sale 5 years ago
I forgot to mention another conquest I had once...
I was over at a music store talking to my mom about what I was going to do with one of my Macs. A lady who was there overheard me talking about older Macs and asked me if I wanted any. Turns out she was a tech coordinator for a school and they were about to dump a bunch of Apple IIe computers! I was only 14 at the time so any local pickup was a good thing–I was too young to be eBaying and the last thing I wanted to see was a bunch of good machines go into a dumpster (which is where they were headed if I hadn't come in!)
A few days later I loaded up my mom's minivan with three Apple IIes, three ImageWriter IIs, three huge composite IIe monitors, a whole box of 5.25" floppy drives (UniDisk and DuoDisk), an entire folder of Apple stickers (which I have sadly misplaced since then), manuals for everything, a few unopened boxes of blank 5.25" disks, a ton of serial mice (the rare Mouse IIe and Mouse IIc kind!), the original system disks for each machine, and a disk notcher! (I could have had about seven more but I didn't have room in either the van or my house!)
To make it even better–a few days before I met this lady I had scored a sweet garage sale conquest–for $21 I got a Mac SE FDHD, a MacTilt stand, several original Apple II games (including an excellent version of the old Parker Bros game "Clue" published by (I think) Virgin Entertainment (it's got a red label and has the board game logo from the 1980s on it if you come across one) on 5.25" disk) and an original Apple III manual (but no Apple III).
I only have one of the IIe systems today and have only a few of the parts from this deal (I also still have the SE FDHD from the garage sale) but seven years later consider it an excellent conquest. What I couldn't use others could–I gave one of the IIes to a friend. Not everything worked out of the lot–there was a half-dead ImageWriter II and a mouse without a ball among other things and some stuff got axed for parts but I got years of enjoyment from the deal.
I was over at a music store talking to my mom about what I was going to do with one of my Macs. A lady who was there overheard me talking about older Macs and asked me if I wanted any. Turns out she was a tech coordinator for a school and they were about to dump a bunch of Apple IIe computers! I was only 14 at the time so any local pickup was a good thing–I was too young to be eBaying and the last thing I wanted to see was a bunch of good machines go into a dumpster (which is where they were headed if I hadn't come in!)
A few days later I loaded up my mom's minivan with three Apple IIes, three ImageWriter IIs, three huge composite IIe monitors, a whole box of 5.25" floppy drives (UniDisk and DuoDisk), an entire folder of Apple stickers (which I have sadly misplaced since then), manuals for everything, a few unopened boxes of blank 5.25" disks, a ton of serial mice (the rare Mouse IIe and Mouse IIc kind!), the original system disks for each machine, and a disk notcher! (I could have had about seven more but I didn't have room in either the van or my house!)
To make it even better–a few days before I met this lady I had scored a sweet garage sale conquest–for $21 I got a Mac SE FDHD, a MacTilt stand, several original Apple II games (including an excellent version of the old Parker Bros game "Clue" published by (I think) Virgin Entertainment (it's got a red label and has the board game logo from the 1980s on it if you come across one) on 5.25" disk) and an original Apple III manual (but no Apple III).
I only have one of the IIe systems today and have only a few of the parts from this deal (I also still have the SE FDHD from the garage sale) but seven years later consider it an excellent conquest. What I couldn't use others could–I gave one of the IIes to a friend. Not everything worked out of the lot–there was a half-dead ImageWriter II and a mouse without a ball among other things and some stuff got axed for parts but I got years of enjoyment from the deal.
Ah well, if it's going to turn into one of those threads ...
A few years back I was crossing a vacant lot in the middle of the city and found a cardboard box containing a complete and working early 1980s Bang & Olufsen stereo, with the speakers.
A few years back I was crossing a vacant lot in the middle of the city and found a cardboard box containing a complete and working early 1980s Bang & Olufsen stereo, with the speakers.
If they did, I would have to sleep in the crawl space.
My best conquest was when my friend's dad found a bunch of old PowerBooks and gave me 2, along with some other things (Powerbook 100 floppy, one phonenet adapter, ADB mouse)
That's a greeeat haul...
my great haul...from a 'yard sale'...asked a wo-man, (LOL) if she had any other macs..besides this duo floppy SE...($5.00) and she takes me into
her garage, where she shows and sells me a LISA..in the original boxes,
manuals, lisa office suite, apple stickers, 2nd version of Lisa, before
it mutanted into the Mac XL...My eyes just about popped outta me
skull, seeing that ' pre macintosh' and I took it home for $ 20.00
and best of all, it booted up...despite some battery leakage..which I
pulled and cleaned it up.
turned out her ex-hubby owned a graphics biz, and manuals writing
and bought it for the company...spent over 9 grand for it..
I got it yrs later..for a double sawbuck..($20.00 )
the apple god smiled on me..
on a lesser note.....got the first issue of mac world, with JESUS JOBS
on the cover,with three 128k macs (1984) yard sale..
for a whopping 25 cents...
I got the 1st year of macworld with 5 boxes of macworlds and macuser magazines I wanted from 89-93, just for shipping (and that was like $50 media mail)