On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> Well, today was a rather good day out at the swap meet, my first
> excursion in a couple years.
I know that feeling... I've really got to get out more too!
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> So moving forward, I found someone selling a Macintosh 512K. Cool, I'd
> been wanting to add a classic Mac to my collection for some time. But
> this one was missing the keyboard and mouse. They only wanted $20 for
> it. I tried talking them down but they didn't want to move. Later I
> found someone selling a complete Mac+. Now this one I know was hot. At
> first they wanted $50 but I talked them down to $15 (I used the "It's all
> the money I have right now" ruse, except in this case it was true). I
> really wanted to get the other Mac, because it was closer to the original
> Macintosh, but this one was more complete, so I got it instead.
>
> Now, I don't want to disparage the fine folks of Oakland, California, but
> as I said before, I'm most positive this system was hot. They were too
> willing to dump off a perfectly good Macintosh (at least I think its
> perfectly good, haven't tested it yet) for too little money. Later on
> when I was going through the software I got with it I found some BMUG
> disks (BMUG = BayArea Macintosh User's Group). So I'll be contacting BMUG
> to see if any of their members "lost" a macintosh within the last couple
> months, and if I find a match I'll sell it back to them for what I paid.
> (I'm such a nice guy, eh!?)
Well... as I was not there I can only venture a long-distance opinion, but
I've had almost no problem finding Mac Plus' in the $20 ~ $40 range. And
SE's for that matter for not much more. ($40 ~ $80)
Around here, they seem to have little value as they are not color, not
well supported (seems almost all recent software wants an '040 or above),
and not nearly old enough to be unique/collectable (like a '128 or '512).
So far, I've found it a lot more difficult to put the nab on a Mac 128
than just about anything else. But, just my take on it...
> Not bad. And I'm still under my budget of $100 per month for classic
> computer collecting (I just implemented that budget, but I think it may
> be too high.
Ooh! Self control!! (I need some!!!) B^}
> I tend to get carried away when collecting old computer
> stuff and, if left unchecked, would buy everything I came across. As it
> is I just may go back for that Mac512K.)
Gopher it! ...and if you feel guilty later, I'm sure there are people out
here who will help!
> Now I just need to keep my new booty hidden from my fiance.
Oops... bad precident! Best to introduce them early on than risk an
unplanned discovery later!
> What do you all think?
Think I just answered that one... B^}
-jim
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Received on Mon Apr 14 1997 - 10:29:08 BST