A Macintosh II Makes An APPLE Store Appearance !

[CaryMG]

Have a look > "A Macintosh II In An APPLE Store"

:b&w:

 

[slomacuser]

I do not why Cult Of Mac is posting some old stuff ...

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/04/30.10.shtml

I rememberd this seen on macobserver years ago ... (2001)

 

[~tl]

I do not why Cult Of Mac is posting some old stuff ...
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/04/30.10.shtml

I rememberd this seen on macobserver years ago ... (2001)

Slow news day? [)] ]'>

 

[Mike Richardson]

Not a "real" Apple store. It's a specialist/auth. retailer. If you read the macobserver article you'll see how they literally threw away hundreds of old Macs and they used - not old Mac IIs - but Mac IIfx comptuers to make the couch. What a waste of rare IIfx'es.

 

[Unknown_K]

I would think they made that couch before the IIfx had much collectors value (2001 was not too hot for 68030 Macs).

Besides a large couch would have cost a bunch of money compared to recycling those IIfxs.

 

[MacMan]

They could switch them all on in winter and it then would be a heated couch!

 

[Mike Richardson]

I wonder if the motherboards are still in them. They could all be salvaged out. On second thought, they probably had to fill the cases with something to strengthen them, so they're all ruined.

 

[John8520]

IIfxs aren't rare...

 

[Unknown_K]

I think they are, do the packrats here have 2 dozen of them between us (I have 2)? This is where I would expect many to have ended up.

 

[Blessed Cheesemaker]

Our local privately owned Mac store uses old compact Macs as (gasp!) DOORSTOPS!

The poor SE/30 really makes me sad, whenever I see it out in the rain...

 

[Mike Richardson]

Our local privately owned Mac store uses old compact Macs as (gasp!) DOORSTOPS!
The poor SE/30 really makes me sad, whenever I see it out in the rain...

That really sucks. If I had a store I would have various old Macs doing some task in the store. For example they could be cash registers. About 10 years ago I went to the Rice University bookstore. They used Macs as their cash registers and it was really cool. I'm not sure if they're a Mac school anymore though - University of Houston certainly isn't >

 

[Scott Baret]

So does one of the Apple Specialist shops in my area. They use, or at least used to use, an SE as a doorstop.

 

[MultiFinder]

The computer store in the bookstore of my university has a Classic II MacQuarium.