Various Macs for Sale

[Scott Stevens]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:37:44 -0400
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Various Macs for Sale
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> 
> > I'm slightly interested in all of them.
> >
> > Open everything.  Plug everything in.  Turn everything on.
> >
> > I'll let you know which ones I'm interested in at the 'surcharge'
> > rate after your report.  heh.
> >
> > (last time I bought a skid of Macs of that vintage at an auction, it
> > was$1 and everybody looked at me funny for buying it.  I didn't
> > regret my purchase one iota, btw.)
> 
> Not much of a market for old Macs these days. A month or so ago I was
> looking for a Quadra 950 PS for my 2nd unit and a guy close to
> Cleveland said he has a parts 950 I could have if I drove up and got
> it (about an hour away). So I drove up there (grabbed the yellowing
> 950) and he started giving me other stuff like a brand new looking AWS
> 95 that was never used and included the full still sealed A/UX 3.x
> software set with manuals and it had the rare 5 drive tray inside also
> (all free). Same guy was selling an early PPC with monitor for $50 (no
> I didn't want it).
> 
> I can see nobody wanting a skid of old Macs (most people just want a
> specific model), did you keep the machines or resell them individually
> on ebay?
> 

A schoolteacher from up in northern Indiana scarfed up a bunch of the
machines (the 6300s and 6500s) because he is deeply involved in a 'send
a computer home' program for some educational project.  He's a Mac lover
and part of the 'plus' in sending home targeted Macintoshes is that the
kids won't 'goof off' with Windows games on them, or so he said.  I got
a tidy little profit plus a school teacher got the hardware he needed
for his personal 'mission.'

At the auctions I go to, sadly, if it won't run a near-current version
of Windoze nobody pays ANY attention to it.  (or maybe that's good, from
my point of view as a low budget hobbyist)

What a COOL find, that AWS 95.