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Absolutely NASSSSTY Score!!1!!!eleventy!! OMFG?
OK, this could potentially be the sickest score ever (for this old mac fan anyhow) This past week I found (get ready......................waaaaait for it. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAit for ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Not one, but TWO BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!OMFG!!!! Quadra 840AV's with matching 1710AV's. Bought in 5/94 by a design studio in Salem, these have been sitting in an attic unused for 15 years. They were originally bought as the main machines at the studio, and replaced two months later with Power Macs. They have been used for less than two months and are basically brand new. Holy shit dude. Marsh> Time to load up some network Marathon on these bitches.
EDIT: Sweeeet baby Jesus in a manger how did something this awesome happen and why did I not know about it years ago?? If I had owned one of these back in 1994 I literally would have shat myself. As in, sat in front of it and played Marathon and not gone to the bathroom for days.
Not one, but TWO BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!OMFG!!!! Quadra 840AV's with matching 1710AV's. Bought in 5/94 by a design studio in Salem, these have been sitting in an attic unused for 15 years. They were originally bought as the main machines at the studio, and replaced two months later with Power Macs. They have been used for less than two months and are basically brand new. Holy shit dude. Marsh> Time to load up some network Marathon on these bitches.
EDIT: Sweeeet baby Jesus in a manger how did something this awesome happen and why did I not know about it years ago?? If I had owned one of these back in 1994 I literally would have shat myself. As in, sat in front of it and played Marathon and not gone to the bathroom for days.
:O 8-o
Doesn't beat someone finding NIB TAM.OK, this could potentially be the sickest score ever (for this old mac fan anyhow) This past week I found (get ready......................waaaaait for it. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAit for ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Not one, but TWO BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!OMFG!!!! Quadra 840AV's with matching 1710AV's. Bought in 5/94 by a design studio in Salem, these have been sitting in an attic unused for 15 years. They were originally bought as the main machines at the studio, and replaced two months later with Power Macs. They have been used for less than two months and are basically brand new. Holy shit dude. Marsh> Time to load up some network Marathon on these bitches.
EDIT: Sweeeet baby Jesus in a manger how did something this awesome happen and why did I not know about it years ago?? If I had owned one of these back in 1994 I literally would have shat myself. As in, sat in front of it and played Marathon and not gone to the bathroom for days.
Still thats awesome!
Sounds good if they were cheap and the capacitors haven't leaked all over the board since then (or the battery), attics tend to get extreme temperatures over the years.
Pictures or it never happened.
If they were used for two months, then it's not really NIB. Still, terrific score!
Holy hell. :O Pics???
This thread is the mega-LOL! Starting with the original post and System7's "Pictures or it never happened"! Hahahaha!
Awesome find indeed!
Awesome find indeed!
Very, very nice (and I would say enviable 
) liberation! Enjoy them fully.
) liberation! Enjoy them fully.
We need teh pics naow!!!!
My Digital camera is MIA at the moment, as soon as I figure out where it is (parents house??) I will take a picture. One of these is being sold to a friend of mine who collects old Macs for $450. I need the money desperately otherwise I'd have kept both of them. Pics as soon as I can guys. You don't see this often.
$450?!?! Even so, thats a buttload of cash!
If you say you got them scot-free, I will really, seriously, truly cry.
For real.
Honest.
For real.
Honest.
What is your friends phone number and credit limit? }
No, I did not get them for free...I paid $150, which is more than fair for two 840's and two 1710AV's. Mmmm they look so sexy... Unfortunately, they aren't as fast as memory serves (Or maybe I am impressing even Power mac status on these, given their age) because marathon 2 and Infinity don't run in millions at 640x480 on them in fullscreen mode. It's only playable on 3/4 size at 8 bit color. The one I have left has a RasterOps paintboard Nubus thingy in it but it doesn't appear to work right (I might need a dongle?)
Did you install the Rasterops software/drivers? Without drivers they run very slowly.
But ... but ... there's TWO!!lol!!!Doesn't beat someone finding NIB TAM.
IIsi - you needs yourself one of those Nubus video input cards that piggybacks the DAV and uses the onboard DSP - I forget the name. Gives you full 30FPS, 640x480 PAL/NTSC capture. And a fast SCSI card.
Spigot Pro AV from Supermac, or Spigot Power AV (less features).
Awesome find, but used for 2 months does not equal "brand new in the box". Also, you should post some pictures!
Sorry about the terminology Fail on my part. I was not aware that on forums, though not in general, "brand new in Box" infers sealed in the box never taken out, though to me, less than two months used, and in the original box, means new in box. Sorry about that. I'll adapt to the generally accepted meaning of this term.
So if you bought a "new" machine from Apple, but it had been used by someone for 2 months, would you be happy and accept it as new? I think not.
You'd be happy if you paid $150.
Used for two months might not mean "brand new", but it sure as hell is still very new for a 15 year old computer.
I would view it as complete in box (asuming they didn't toss anything during the month they used it and put it all back in as they found it).
New means you are the first one opening the box and touching the contents since it left the factory. Anything else is just a level of completeness.
Would I pay $150 for an 840av in the box with low runtime, probably not since I have a working unit and used is good enough (cheaper too).
New means you are the first one opening the box and touching the contents since it left the factory. Anything else is just a level of completeness.
Would I pay $150 for an 840av in the box with low runtime, probably not since I have a working unit and used is good enough (cheaper too).
Good points, yeah, I accept it as new in box because for its age, it is as new as it could be to me, and has the original contents. But I shouldn't have labeled it as such since that usually means literally, "never opened." My bad.
You remind me of that kid "Joey" in the movie "Hackers."
Design studio in Salem, eh? What place is this? I grew up on the North Shore, and my sister works in Salem...
The AppleVision 1710 is a very nice, crisp Trintron display. But 1710s have a known problem with the flyback transformer. I had two 1710s in my life. I bought one for $100 in 1999 from a warehouse in Danvers that also had a ton of Supermatch 21" displays at the time for the same price, but I really wanted that Trinitron bad. The other I "inherited" from an internship I did at Agfa in Wilmington, MA in 1998. Both eventually went south. I always thought the AppleVision/ColorSync 850AV would have been pretty sweet, too. I never had the AV version of the 1710. I did eventually get an AudioVision 14, so it's close enough (just not 17" and fixed at 640x480) that I don't really feel the need to chase down one of those enormous CRTs anymore.
Also, the AppleVision 1710 and the Quadra 840 are not contemporaries (and certainly aren't "matching"). The Quadra 840 was discontinued in July, 1994, and the AppleVision 1710 was introduced in August, 1995 more than a year later. If that design studio told you they were using the AppleVision displays with the Quadras, then they used the Quadras for more than a year before boxing them back up. The closest to "contemporary" 17" monitor would have been the Multiple Scan 17...
Peace,
Drew
So... Pics yet? How long is that camera going to be MIA before you send out CSAR teams to recover it?
Design studio in Salem, eh? What place is this? I grew up on the North Shore, and my sister works in Salem...
The AppleVision 1710 is a very nice, crisp Trintron display. But 1710s have a known problem with the flyback transformer. I had two 1710s in my life. I bought one for $100 in 1999 from a warehouse in Danvers that also had a ton of Supermatch 21" displays at the time for the same price, but I really wanted that Trinitron bad. The other I "inherited" from an internship I did at Agfa in Wilmington, MA in 1998. Both eventually went south. I always thought the AppleVision/ColorSync 850AV would have been pretty sweet, too. I never had the AV version of the 1710. I did eventually get an AudioVision 14, so it's close enough (just not 17" and fixed at 640x480) that I don't really feel the need to chase down one of those enormous CRTs anymore.
Also, the AppleVision 1710 and the Quadra 840 are not contemporaries (and certainly aren't "matching"). The Quadra 840 was discontinued in July, 1994, and the AppleVision 1710 was introduced in August, 1995 more than a year later. If that design studio told you they were using the AppleVision displays with the Quadras, then they used the Quadras for more than a year before boxing them back up. The closest to "contemporary" 17" monitor would have been the Multiple Scan 17...
Peace,
Drew
Nobody buys an expensive 840av new and then stuffs them in storage after a month of use. Maybe these guys used to sell cars that got flooded and now moved into the retro computer sales? 
So I have been playing with this thing (Sorry guys the camera is still missing, which sucks because that's like $250 misplaced.) What do I need to do to get the TV in working? It's got 7.6.1 with the AV extension and apple tv thingy, and monitors extension. What else do I need?
by "apple tv thingy" do you mean the application or the card?
If you're talking about getting video input on screen, you should be good to go with Apple Video Player and the Apple Video Player extension (which you can grab from the 7.6.1 install). If you're talking about connecting the Mac to a TV to use the TV as a computer monitor, I believe you have to hold down Command (Apple), Option, and the letters T and V at startup.