I feel like I'm the only one who had no intentions of bidding on the lot! Regardless, this was a nice pickup, especially that upgrade. Bummer about the hard drives--to be honest, that's the one part I like to stockpile (I have two extras to use with one PowerBook, just in case the IBM in there ever fails, and tend to pick up dead PB 1xx machines whenever I find them locally just for the drives).

Apple made PPC upgrades available for many of its 1993-1996 68K machines, although none appear to be very common at all. I think a lot of folks just bought the new machines or went with the lower-priced clones of the day, provided they didn't migrate to Windows (as was commonplace in the mid-90s).