old MAC's

From: Claude <claudew_at_sprint.ca>
Date: Mon Oct 23 15:03:17 2000

> Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> I've begun to see numbers of old Mac's in the various thrift stores.
> Which models are particularly interesting? I've never had much of a
> taste for the things, but at $6-$10 each it might be worth snagging
> the things just for the disk drives, or some such.

I have about 20 compact MACs in my collection. These are the ones with
the small BW screen. They include several models, Plus, Classic, Classic
II...Most interesting are the original 128K model M00001 if I remember
well...and the Color Classic....try to find an original MAC carry bag,
they are nice...The 128K and color sell for quite a bit on e-bay but I
would never pay that much for them...You will find Classics with 40 and
80 scsi drives most of the time...also check for screen burn and week
picture tubes...90% of the classic macs have bad screen burn where the
desktop in burned into the tube...Try to find some that are not too
yellowed...You might have problems finding older type keyboards and mice
for the 512k,128k,Plus models....

>
> Today I ran into a classic, a ii-lc or some such and iii-si or
> something like that. These latter are both those recent-looking
> low-profile thingies. Do they have anything of interest in them?

The IICI, IISI and other MAC II's are newer machines, no real collecting
value IMO. I do have most of the II series but I would not pay more then
$20-$25 for a well equipped one. To recent to collect and to old the do
anything contructive on...I tried www/explorer on a IICI with 32M/cache
card and it's a painfull experience...

Claude

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> Dick
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