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Possibly the BIGGEST conquest any of us have ever made!

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That is one amazing conquest! Glad to see you were able to give so many machines a new home!

 

jsarchibald

Well-known member
That is one amazing conquest! Glad to see you were able to give so many machines a new home!
And there is still plenty to be cleared, if you are serious about visiting and taking as much as you can. All I have to do is make sure the property owner (and previous/current (?) owner) of the gear is comfortable with the visit.

 

Dog Cow

Well-known member
Good to see that huge lot won't end up in a landfill; too bad several thousand times more does. :-/

 

Anonymous Freak

Well-known member
Well THAT backfired. I showed her and all it was was an opportunity for her to go on a rant about how much stuff I DO have. :-/ I just can't win.
lol

Gary
I'm lucky to have an accepting wife. (As long as it stays in the basement.) :-D

Yeah, this one cleans the clock of my mega-haul a couple years ago. (Most of that haul was software and parts, not complete systems, although it did include a trio of //c systems.)

 

trag

Well-known member
Amazing haul. If only Australia weren't so far away...but then the significant other would kill me.

Did you see any Outbound stuff in there? Clone laptops from ~1990 with a blue kangaroo emblem? If you find a Mac or SE which won't boot and it has a mystery card in it, be sure to mention it here. I'm still looking for a docking card for the Outbound Model 125. It would be installed in a Plus or SE, and there'd be a little cable coming out with a connector that looks like mini-centronics, but isn't. And the Plus or SE would be without ROMs so it won't boot...

They've probably all been scrapped as non-working, but I keep hoping one will turn up, somewhere...

 

Byrd

Well-known member
Hi js,

I would be speechless (or maybe not) walking into a haul like this, all ripe for the picking! Thanks for posting about your travels, and your wife truly deserves a medal. I've had (real) dreams about walking into something like this, and going through it all. Sad I know :p

Good luck in selling off the excess, take your time, spend a little while cleaning/fixing them up, it pays the bills. Certainly I'd be interested in a few bits & pieces, shout out!

JB

 

Bunsen

Admin-Witchfinder-General
If only container transport from Australia to the US west coast were affordable ...
Hell no. This lot is staying Down Under if I've got anything to do with it. You guys have plenty!

 

jsarchibald

Well-known member
Did you see any Outbound stuff in there?
Sorry, nothing like that, but I'd probably hang onto it if I had. Good luck!

This is where the hobby gets way, way out of hand.
Not sure if I'm insulted or chuffed?

I would be speechless (or maybe not) walking into a haul like this, all ripe for the picking! Thanks for posting about your travels, and your wife truly deserves a medal. I've had (real) dreams about walking into something like this, and going through it all. Sad I know :p
Good luck in selling off the excess, take your time, spend a little while cleaning/fixing them up, it pays the bills. Certainly I'd be interested in a few bits & pieces, shout out!

JB
Well, you can always visit him, you know... It's a lot closer for you than me. If you're chasing something specific, let me know, you've helped me enough in the past!

Hell no. This lot is staying Down Under if I've got anything to do with it. You guys have plenty!
Amen brother! How many times have I had to read about mega hauls over there? And how many over here? Yep, zip. About time something like that happened over here.

As a side note, Australia seems to be very pro Apple, judging by the new members on retromaccast over the years. Also, smartphone usage in Australia has the iPhone at around 70% of the market, but it is about half that in the US. Apple does well over here, and I've noticed the vintage stuff is worth more here as well.

 

Gorgonops

Moderator
Staff member
There's this fine line somewhere between "collecting" and "hoarding" and, well... hauls like this make me glad that this isn't a cat fancier forum.

 

ChristTrekker

Well-known member
I knew there was a reason I wasn't married.
:-/

Seriously though...this has got to be the most Insanely Great acquisition in the history of this forum. I nominate this thread for Stickiness until someone does better. :approve:

 

LCGuy

LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
As a side note, Australia seems to be very pro Apple, judging by the new members on retromaccast over the years. Also, smartphone usage in Australia has the iPhone at around 70% of the market, but it is about half that in the US. Apple does well over here, and I've noticed the vintage stuff is worth more here as well.
The main reason as to why vintage stuff is worth more here is because its harder to find. While Apple practically OWNED the Australian education market from the mid 1980's up until around the late 1990's, outside of the education, publishing and design industries, Macs were never really all that common, mostly because not only did they used to cost an absolute bomb back in the day, but also because up until around the time Apple Stores started opening up, Apple customer service here was....well....terrible. And the fact that most resellers couldn't have cared less didn't help much either.

Either way, what a journey...great to finally see the pics. And I agree - its about time that something like this happened here in Australia. If I were a little bit closer, and I wasn't in the process of looking for another job (and therefore had money), I'd be heading down there myself to grab a carload.

 

olePigeon

Well-known member
How about a Hall of Fame sticky with links to threads about conquests now spoken of in hush tones and reverence?

 

Unknown_K

Well-known member
The biggest haul I ever had filled up the trunk of my car (which is huge) and the back seat (left quite a bit behind). I have been collecting mac since 2001 or so and would still jump at the chance to find a local stash like that as long as I didn't have to take it all or nothing.

Depending on where you are in the hobby (beginner to advanced collector or maybe reseller) you would have taken it all or just what you need. It is hard for some people to not snag everything, and then you have the problem or storing, sorting, cleaning, and testing it all. You never know what could be in all those boxes and you don't have all day to poke around and find out.

 
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