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The Mother of All Conquests
Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows):
I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?
- 2 beige G3 Macs, 1 desktop, 1 tower
2 desktop Apple 6100/DOS
Centris 660AV
IICI
Quadra 650
IICX
6290
IISI
LCIII
LC 475
LC 575
Starmax 3000 (rare)
SE
8550
9500 180/MP (rare)
IIx
Apple Portable
Monitors- Color, greyscale(including rare portrait), and multimedia
External hard drives, cdrom's, raid array, tape drives, worm etc
Boxes of parts, including motherboards, cpus, ram (all kinds from 30pin to SDRAM), sleds, and cards- pci, nubus, pds, agp - video cards, scsi, ethernet, tv tuners, etc
Audio gear including mac midi adaptor and cables
Boxes of cables, -scsi, serial, localtalk, audio, video etc
Network equipment - localtalk, 10 base 2, bridges etc
Boxes of ibook and 603 laptop parts- screens, drives, ram etc
Tons of software on floppy and cd-rom, including all versions of mac os
Manuals and books - including parts and repair manuals for most vintage macs
Boxes of mice, trackballs, sketch pad, joysticks, keyboards
Box of usb stuff - mac tv tuner, usb floppy drive, usb to scsi, usb to serial
etc
Boxes of mac floppy drives and mac hard disks (scsi and ide) from 20mg to 2Ogig
This is only a partial list.
I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?
Not bad.
Have a list of Nubus cards?
I haven't seen it yet up close and personal, but only on racks in another room when I last visited, so I am just going by the advertised list at present. Probably later this week or at the weekend I'll pick it up and will take stock then.
I do know the seller and have a general sense on that basis that the stuff will a) be working (-ish), and B) should include some interesting bits and pieces. He is a good deal more knowledgeable than me and has some very good connections among local Apple users/ collectors, including the ITS folk at the main university in the city. So I am hopeful for some hidden goodies and golden oldies. And if not, then for $60, I can't have gone far wrong.
The story is that changed circumstances require that it all go quickly. And I am happy to oblige. Come to papa....
I do know the seller and have a general sense on that basis that the stuff will a) be working (-ish), and B) should include some interesting bits and pieces. He is a good deal more knowledgeable than me and has some very good connections among local Apple users/ collectors, including the ITS folk at the main university in the city. So I am hopeful for some hidden goodies and golden oldies. And if not, then for $60, I can't have gone far wrong.
The story is that changed circumstances require that it all go quickly. And I am happy to oblige. Come to papa....
Amazing.
Insta-collection! Nicely done.
I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:
I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:
8-o Very nice haul, just as it stands!
Congrats and good hunting when it comes time to open the boxen! [
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Congrats and good hunting when it comes time to open the boxen! [
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Very nice!
I already have one of these DAV-equipped adapters for the 660av, so if there is a duplicate, we can certainly work out a deal. I know that the seller was looking for one a couple of years ago (he wanted mine), so maybe he got lucky.
Nice collection-in-an-instant. Congratulations! 
Wow! That is very impressive. Congratulations! I can't wait to hear about the hidden treasures you find.
But yeah, that beats my collection instantaneously. :lol:
But yeah, that beats my collection instantaneously. :lol:
Absolutely impressive! And all for $60...lucky! That 9500/180MP is extremely awesome cuz it's got the older processors...wonder if you can run BeOS or even Rhapsody on that?!
Anyhow, huge haul at a mere $60 is phenomenal, instant collection indeed =)
Anyhow, huge haul at a mere $60 is phenomenal, instant collection indeed =)
Sounds like a great haul!!! 8-o If you want to get rid of any Localtalk cables and accessories, A trackball, keyboard, or 1 or 2 SCSI hard drives, and are willing to ship to the US, let me know.
It transpires that the IIx, the Portable and the 660av are going to be held back. Ho hum.
I will be selling some things on, as I don't have room for it all.
I will be selling some things on, as I don't have room for it all.
Those are the models that are worth having too.
Lower the price.
Let me guess, you're not married. :lol:
Why?!
I hate when these deals go awry like this, they advertise something and then they pull it.
you MUST lower the price. That's just shady.
The explanation offered (with apologies) is fair and above board; items still included make the price agreeable. He'll probably say $50 on the day; I know the guy.
Married? Yes, married for about 20 years, but with a big enough house these days to hide it away in. As I say, however, I do not plan to keep all of it; of the items listed, I already have the following: G3 Tower, IIci, Q650 (but on the blink), IIsi, LCIII, LC475, LC575, 9500, MP 604e card @200MHz, SE FDHD.
So most of this new stuff will be sold on to others, though I will no doubt pick it over first. I had been most keenly interested in the Portable. That is the real regret. A IIx I can live without; I have a IIfx. And I have two 660av units already.
My main interest now is in the parts boxes, scsi drives, Nubus cards, the AV Monitor (always wanted one of those), etc. etc. Bring on the weekend!
Married? Yes, married for about 20 years, but with a big enough house these days to hide it away in. As I say, however, I do not plan to keep all of it; of the items listed, I already have the following: G3 Tower, IIci, Q650 (but on the blink), IIsi, LCIII, LC475, LC575, 9500, MP 604e card @200MHz, SE FDHD.
So most of this new stuff will be sold on to others, though I will no doubt pick it over first. I had been most keenly interested in the Portable. That is the real regret. A IIx I can live without; I have a IIfx. And I have two 660av units already.
My main interest now is in the parts boxes, scsi drives, Nubus cards, the AV Monitor (always wanted one of those), etc. etc. Bring on the weekend!
IIx's are kind of rare, glad I have 2 of them took me years to find good ones.
LMAO! My wife would deny my existence even after having beared my kids to the point of telling them that their real father died in a fire if I ever came home with a collection as large as that (albeit a lovely collection). :lol:
The only thing that ever stands between me and a good conquest is a woman. They never seem to understand. I've been carrying four computers in the trunk of my car for over a year because I haven't had a chance to sneak them into the collection. Dammit I wish she would leave me so I could clean out my trunk. :lol:
Are you my long lost brother? :lol:
Some of you might recall my recent 512k conquest last week. Well, I left it case and all in the trunk of my car, waiting until the next day after my wife left for work to smuggle it down in the basement. By the time I got home from work the city had declared a snow emergency so all 3 of our vehicles had to be parked in the driveway. Since my car was the last in the driveway, my wife took it to work the next morning, because she leaves before me. Long story short, she spun out on her way to work and got stuck on a curb. When she opened the trunk to get a flash light to check for damage, she also found my *newest* computer.
I would be worried about the machines bouncing around in the trunk waiting for you to sneak them in the house.
Another thing is the heat as well...not such a problem in Winter, but in the middle of Summer it gets bloody hot in a car boot...my Dad leaves his work laptop in the boot of his car all the time and I'm surprised the heat hasn't damaged it.
They tend not to bounce when they're packed so tightly that there's no air gap between them. 8-o
One full Dodge Grand Caravan load and one further half load later, I am well and truly stocked up on old Mac goodies - i.e., my Garage is a great deal more full of crap than it was a day ago.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
The machines are (more or less) as originally listed. The boxes of parts are what I was really after, and in this respect, the haul did not disappoint.
I have not looked in great detail, but on the basis of a cursory inspection, I must have hundreds of RAM sticks (with 64MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs among them, and one - hopefully there will be a set of four - of those enormous 16MB 30-pin SIMMS), dozens of manuals and books, ZIF cards for PCI Macs, 5+ LC575 (I think) logic boards, 50+ Hard Drives, 15 or 20 SCSI CD-ROM drives, several DAT drives, a box of internal SCSI ZIP drives, 8-10 external SCSI drive cases (many of them nicely-sized for Compacts and all but one in very good shape), a SCSI RAID, a 7-CD external SCSI changer, external CD drives (several Apple-branded), boxes of cabling, an Apple Full-Page monochrome display, etc. etc.. The lot also contains little gems like a SCSI-Ethernet converter, an AsanteTalk localtalk-ethernet printer adapter and possibly two (I think I saw another at the bottom of the box) and on and on. Also hundreds of software floppy disks, at least a dozen 68040 processors, a box chock full of those CD-caddies .... Good golly, Miss Molly.
I would reckon that it would take me the best part of a solid 40-hour week just to do an inventory. As it is way too much for even this pack-rat, and as I must also be aware of Herself's views of the quantity of boxes newly-piled in the Garage, eBay definitely beckons.
And the plastics of the machines are mostly excellent - even on the SE.
Am I excited? You can tell I'm excited, can't you?
Am I excited? You can tell I'm excited, can't you?
Some random finds from the boxes:
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
A Spectrum SE/30 pds video card with cable and connection assembly for SE/30 (maybe the SE too?);
A Radius Two-Page Display SE/30 pds video (this one, unfortunately, has a BNC connector);
Macintosh Display 8 24GC nubus (ideal for my IIfx under System 6, methinks);
An E-Machines Futura II 7" nubus (not sure which of the series it is yet, but it seems to be one of the higher end models from 1993);
A G4 Stealth Serial Port;
2x 486 DOS-compatibility cards (fits 6100 with angle adapter or, it seems, the Quadra PDS) and I seem to have at least one of the octopus cables required to use it (very odd device).
I also have an unknown ethernet card which has no markings and which I am thus unable to identify. The connector is the same as nubus, but it surely cannot be a nubus card as the connector is at a 90º angle to the card and thus the card would lie across the logic board rather than sitting vertically in the machine if installed. It is about 8 inches long, and so something like a gigantic LCPDS card. As there is a cable that connects to a separate board with ethernet, I assume that it must be for a Compact, but that it requires some sort of adapter to fit. Any ideas as to what it could be?
It doesn't have a manufacturer, or model name on it? Another idea...does it have an FCC ID or Patent number? You might be able to do a search on one of those and find something. Anyway, it sounds like its for an SE or SE/30.