elemenoh
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I posted about this on r/VintageApple, but figured you all might appreciate hearing more of the story.
Here are some photos, including a couple not in the reddit post.
On Tuesday, someone tipped me off about an Apple box sitting out on the curb. They said it looked like something was inside of it. Since CRTs in good condition are hard to come across I figured it'd be worth the trip to check it out. It turned out to be a brand new, sealed Macintosh 21-Inch Color display. The person clearing out the house said they only cut the tape on the top of the box that morning to take a peek. These pics on imgur show the unboxing. It's nothing special compared to contemporary Apple packaging, but amazing to experience opening a brand new example of the heaviest Apple product ever made at 100lbs (ANS was only 84!) -- and a 30-year-old one at that.
Today I connected it to a Quadra 950 and it fired right up. Looks sharp and there were no scary noises or magic smoke. The degauss noise is a little intense, like a radar ping. It sounds almost identical to the Radius Color Pivot.
Mac84 on reddit asked about the 13W3 cable it came with, since there are several variants of it. The part number on this one is 590-0615-A. Other bundled accessories include a power cable, ADB cable, AppleColor Graphics Sampler CD, manuals and warranty card.
I have a lot of neat things in my collection, but this one is quite special. Now that it's tested I'll be packing it back up and putting it in storage again for a while to keep it pristine, but have some ideas of how to display it in the future.
I think it fits best paired with a Quadra 950, but let me know what computer and graphics card you'd connect it to.
Oh, and this wasn't the only thing that was there. So far I've also picked up:
No, I won't be selling any of it, but thought you all might be interested to hear about the find.
Here are some photos, including a couple not in the reddit post.
On Tuesday, someone tipped me off about an Apple box sitting out on the curb. They said it looked like something was inside of it. Since CRTs in good condition are hard to come across I figured it'd be worth the trip to check it out. It turned out to be a brand new, sealed Macintosh 21-Inch Color display. The person clearing out the house said they only cut the tape on the top of the box that morning to take a peek. These pics on imgur show the unboxing. It's nothing special compared to contemporary Apple packaging, but amazing to experience opening a brand new example of the heaviest Apple product ever made at 100lbs (ANS was only 84!) -- and a 30-year-old one at that.
Today I connected it to a Quadra 950 and it fired right up. Looks sharp and there were no scary noises or magic smoke. The degauss noise is a little intense, like a radar ping. It sounds almost identical to the Radius Color Pivot.
Mac84 on reddit asked about the 13W3 cable it came with, since there are several variants of it. The part number on this one is 590-0615-A. Other bundled accessories include a power cable, ADB cable, AppleColor Graphics Sampler CD, manuals and warranty card.
I have a lot of neat things in my collection, but this one is quite special. Now that it's tested I'll be packing it back up and putting it in storage again for a while to keep it pristine, but have some ideas of how to display it in the future.
I think it fits best paired with a Quadra 950, but let me know what computer and graphics card you'd connect it to.
Oh, and this wasn't the only thing that was there. So far I've also picked up:
- Macintosh Portrait Display (Mint condition)
- AppleColor High Resolution RGB Display (Excellent condition)
- Macintosh IIx (Good condition; needs recapping)
- Prototype LaserWriter SC (glossy plastics; no serial)
- Prototype StyleWriter (glossy plastics; no serial)
- PowerBook 500 Series with PPC Upgrade (Excellent condition)
- PowerBook G3 Series 14.1" (Fair condition)
- Apple II Chinese Card (In box, apparently super rare)
- Macintosh Display Card 4•8 Prototype (incomplete part number)
- Sealed box of Apple Double Sided floppy disks (Excellent condition)
- Apple Extended Keyboard
- Wedge mouse
- Six-color logo mouse pad
- Cube enclosure
- Misc cables / manuals for the above
No, I won't be selling any of it, but thought you all might be interested to hear about the find.