The Mother of All Conquests

[beachycove]

Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows):

• 2 beige G3 Macs, 1 desktop, 1 tower
  2 desktop Apple 6100/DOS
  Centris 660AV
  IICI
  Quadra 650
  IICX
  6290
  IISI
  LCIII
  LC 475
  LC 575
  Starmax 3000 (rare)
  SE
  8550
  9500 180/MP (rare)
  IIx
  Apple Portable
   
   
  Monitors- Color, greyscale(including rare portrait), and multimedia
   
  External hard drives, cdrom's, raid array, tape drives, worm etc
   
  Boxes of parts, including motherboards, cpus, ram (all kinds from 30pin to SDRAM), sleds, and cards- pci, nubus, pds, agp - video cards, scsi, ethernet, tv tuners, etc
   
  Audio gear including mac midi adaptor and cables
   
  Boxes of cables, -scsi, serial, localtalk, audio, video etc
   
  Network equipment - localtalk, 10 base 2, bridges etc
   
  Boxes of ibook and 603 laptop parts- screens, drives, ram etc
   
  Tons of software on floppy and cd-rom, including all versions of mac os
   
  Manuals and books - including parts and repair manuals for most vintage macs
   
  Boxes of mice, trackballs, sketch pad, joysticks, keyboards
   
  Box of usb stuff - mac tv tuner, usb floppy drive, usb to scsi, usb to serial
  etc
   
  Boxes of mac floppy drives and mac hard disks (scsi and ide) from 20mg to 2Ogig
   
  This is only a partial list.
  

I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?

 

[Dog Cow]

Not bad.

 

[Unknown_K]

Have a list of Nubus cards?

 

[beachycove]

I haven't seen it yet up close and personal, but only on racks in another room when I last visited, so I am just going by the advertised list at present. Probably later this week or at the weekend I'll pick it up and will take stock then.

I do know the seller and have a general sense on that basis that the stuff will a) be working (-ish), and B) should include some interesting bits and pieces. He is a good deal more knowledgeable than me and has some very good connections among local Apple users/ collectors, including the ITS folk at the main university in the city. So I am hopeful for some hidden goodies and golden oldies. And if not, then for $60, I can't have gone far wrong.

The story is that changed circumstances require that it all go quickly. And I am happy to oblige. Come to papa....

 

[Mars478]

Amazing.

 

[Bunsen]

Insta-collection! Nicely done.

I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

8-o Very nice haul, just as it stands!

Congrats and good hunting when it comes time to open the boxen! [] ]'>

 

[aftermac]

Very nice!

 

[beachycove]

Insta-collection! Nicely done.
I'm looking forward to your further detailing of this haul. If there's a 660AV Nubus adapter in amongst all that, DIBS :rambo:

I already have one of these DAV-equipped adapters for the 660av, so if there is a duplicate, we can certainly work out a deal. I know that the seller was looking for one a couple of years ago (he wanted mine), so maybe he got lucky.

 

[QuadSix50]

Nice collection-in-an-instant. Congratulations!

 

[funkytoad]

Wow! That is very impressive. Congratulations! I can't wait to hear about the hidden treasures you find.

But yeah, that beats my collection instantaneously. :lol:

 

[Redjack]

Absolutely impressive! And all for $60...lucky! That 9500/180MP is extremely awesome cuz it's got the older processors...wonder if you can run BeOS or even Rhapsody on that?!

Anyhow, huge haul at a mere $60 is phenomenal, instant collection indeed =)

 

[Green78II]

Sounds like a great haul!!! 8-o If you want to get rid of any Localtalk cables and accessories, A trackball, keyboard, or 1 or 2 SCSI hard drives, and are willing to ship to the US, let me know.

 

[beachycove]

It transpires that the IIx, the Portable and the 660av are going to be held back. Ho hum.

I will be selling some things on, as I don't have room for it all.

 

[Unknown_K]

It transpires that the IIx, the Portable and the 660av are going to be held back. Ho hum.
I will be selling some things on, as I don't have room for it all.

Those are the models that are worth having too.

Lower the price.

 

[Quadraman]

Agreed today to buy this lot from a friend for $60 (text of the advert follows):


I don't have room for it all, so I suspect that duplicates and such will need to be sold on. Still, there should be no problem re-couping the $60, eh?

Let me guess, you're not married. :lol:

 

[Mars478]

It transpires that the IIx, the Portable and the 660av are going to be held back. Ho hum.
I will be selling some things on, as I don't have room for it all.

Why?!

I hate when these deals go awry like this, they advertise something and then they pull it.

you MUST lower the price. That's just shady.

 

[beachycove]

The explanation offered (with apologies) is fair and above board; items still included make the price agreeable. He'll probably say $50 on the day; I know the guy.

Married? Yes, married for about 20 years, but with a big enough house these days to hide it away in. As I say, however, I do not plan to keep all of it; of the items listed, I already have the following: G3 Tower, IIci, Q650 (but on the blink), IIsi, LCIII, LC475, LC575, 9500, MP 604e card @200MHz, SE FDHD.

So most of this new stuff will be sold on to others, though I will no doubt pick it over first. I had been most keenly interested in the Portable. That is the real regret. A IIx I can live without; I have a IIfx. And I have two 660av units already.

My main interest now is in the parts boxes, scsi drives, Nubus cards, the AV Monitor (always wanted one of those), etc. etc. Bring on the weekend!

 

[Unknown_K]

IIx's are kind of rare, glad I have 2 of them took me years to find good ones.