The biggest haul I’ve ever made.

[LaPorta]

Today, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Adam Rosen’s former residence for the flea market. Everything there was listed as not worth selling, and everything was available for free. Personally, I was thrilled to walk away with the following (machines were listed as not working):

-IIfx

-Power Mac G4 Server

-Multiple MacWrite/Project boxed sets, disks and tapes intact. System 6.0.8 boxed.

- About 12 1.4 MB/800k auto inject Sony drives. Unknown as to function.

-Four 400k drives (probably don’t work) as well as two empty 400k drive cases.

-Two not so great shape HD20 SCs.

-Various ADB keyboards.

-One original Mac keyboard, and two number pads.

-About 10 original phone jack serial keyboard cords. 
-M0100 mouse with original fat connector.

-Mac Portable power adapter.

- PowerBook monitor adapters (about five).

- PowerMac AudioVision adapters.

-About 10 Mac 128k/512k/Plus/SE logic boards in various states (I’ll bet all need repairs).

-One SE/30 logic board which appears to have been re-capped, must have some sort of issue.

-Radius NuBus care of some sort.

-Various Apple-branded cables.

- Two boxes of Apple disks and CDs, including a ton of Apple Sales Resource disks.

-Every volume of Inside Macintosh.

-The last Larry Pina books I didn’t have.

-ResEdit reference book, second edition of Family Hardware, etc, etc.

Also not pictured

- Six compact Mac 9” CRTs (all appear intact).

- Seven or eight Mac 128k-Plus and SE logic boards and power supplies.

In all my life, I’ve never come across a more awesome or cool pile of stuff that was “not worth listing for sale” and was otherwise destined for the dump!

Over the next few weeks, I’ll probably need help figuring out what some of this stuff is.

Here’s hoping my wife doesn’t kill me...

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very nice! Such a generous contribution to the community by his heirs in his honor.

 

[Crutch]

Fantastic! What are those big 3 ring binders? Is that a 3-ring edition of Inside Macintosh?

 

[krishnadraws]

Great haul! What are your plans for all this amazing tech?

 

[LaPorta]

Fantastic! What are those big 3 ring binders? Is that a 3-ring edition of Inside Macintosh?

Apparently a “loose-leaf” edition. It contains volumes I-V and X. VI is a separate book that I got too.

 

[LaPorta]

Great haul! What are your plans for all this amazing tech?

Honestly: spread the wealth. In my usual way, when it’s time to part with things (when I catalog it all), I’ll either sell as-is for a low price or if I’ve repaired it charge a it for my time and effort. I want these things to go out to the community to help with restorations and to keep our machines running. I also think it fair to make a bit on the side for my time and effort to go through and test/repair things.

I also just discovered a treasure trove of machine Install CDs and other such discs. Those will be imaged and sent to VTools for archiving. This could take me more than a year, if I am being realistic.

 

[maceffects]

WOW 8-o What an amazing find!  Great work @LaPorta!  Keep us posted on all the little odds and ends you find. 

 

[MOS8_030]

Very nice save!

 

[Michael_b]

What a haul, congrats!

 

[sstaylor]

Those loose-leaf Inside Mac volumes sure would be relatively easy to scan & convert to PDF.  Just sayin'.

Assuming they're not already out in the wild.

Nice haul though.  And kudos to the heirs.

 

[LaPorta]

And kudos to the heirs.

Yes, I want to make it clear that I am extremely thankful to them, and to Mr. Rosen (posthumously) as well.

I'll post more here as I tease out what is in there. Especially with the software, I just took, and would ask questions later.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Well done and congratulations.

A haul is exhilarating. I've had two so far and I am happy for you.

I almost sold a dual Bernoulli drive for next to nothing to Adam some years' back. I couldn't really test because I had no Bernoulli disk and the postage was something phenomenal. These are heavy things.

I'm glad that his items are going to good homes.

I (and half the community here) would love that IIfx, if you're not going to keep it.

 

[LaPorta]

Unfortunately (for others), the IIfx is one of those unicorns that I thought I’d never find, so I think I’ll keep it. The G4 server, however, if I get it running, I’ll likely sell to someone who could put it to good use!

 

[Crutch]

I’d be interested in that loose leaf Inside Mac if you ever decide you’d like to part with it.  :cc:

 

[btober]

Today, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Adam Rosen’s former residence for the flea market.

Thanks for coming!

I hope everyone will be following the items for sale on eBay. We'll ultimately have ~100 listings for some great things with reasonable starting bids, and making a purchase would be a great way to show appreciation for the efforts of Adam and his family.

 

[Rick Dangerous]

Amazing!!!   Whats with the naked baby doll on the floor?  I keed I keed....

 

[LaPorta]

When you have a six year old

and four year old daughter, other sorts of

collections wind up alongside the machines...

 

[LaPorta]

Indeed, the items on eBay appear very reasonable. Will be looking out!

 

[olePigeon]

I hereby officially certify this as an "Epic Haul."

We need a ribbon for stuff like this.