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Macintosh TV!!!1!

Franklinstein

Franklinstein

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With matching black keyboard and mouse, to boot! You guys have no idea how excited I was to find this thing; I almost needed new pants. It's in really good shape, too.

I also grabbed a couple of Sony Vaio SuperSlim Pro notebooks (PII 366) with accessories. Good for internet and IMing, anyways. Plus a USB SuperDisk drive, some random ADB and serial cables, an original iMac motherboard, and a power adapter for my HiNote! w00t for free stuff!

 
Where the heck did you get em?
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From the wonderful recycling centre. I went to the back to check on the new arrivals, and there was the Mac TV, sitting in a box with a bunch of random junk. After freaking out for a moment, I gathered it up and loaded it in my car before getting back to work on some mangled PowerBook G4s that had also come in that day.

The iMac board and other junk (old Ethernet hubs, broken PC laptops and parts, some Pentium servers) were in a pallet outside, just sitting there waiting to be rained on. I don't know what firmware revision it has, and don't have any Mezzanine devices besides; it's more just in case my old Bondi decides to fry in the future.

I also picked up a couple of beige G3 motherboards with the 83MHz-rated system controllers, as well, so I'll be putting those to good use in the future.

 
So the Mac TV was FREE????

But who the hell would throw out a Mac TV? With only 10,000 made, and probably nowhere near that number still in existence, you'd think that most people that are fortunate enough to own one would be aware of its exclusivity and collectors value.

 
So the Mac TV was FREE????
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Yup... with the ol' five-finger discount! Er, ten finger, as it's kind of hard to lift with just one hand.

No, I work there for the guy, stripping computers and fixing those that are worth money, and in return he gives me pretty much whatever I want: he has so much crap he really doesn't have time to go through it all, so he really doesn't care what I take so long as it isn't a PBG4 or a P4 or anything.

 
Wow! That's a nice haul you got there man! An old friend of my brother's had one of those. Sitting right next to his TAM machine (his dad was a doctor and was quite wealthy) so here you have two machines that are famous:

*MINT* condition MacTV and a BRAND NEW (read: $10,000) Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

Oh, and he had a Mac IIfx as well. The guy was a mac-head but he had some cool stuff. I got to be there the day Apple rolled out the red carpet and pulled up in the limo and brought it in and set it up.

Sorry, but that was just a cool event. Too bad apple doesn't do that anymore :(

Then again, you would expect them to do that @ THAT price ;)

But still, awesome score! I would LOVE to have that sitting in the corner of my room. I remember having a TV Tuner on my PowerMac 5200 and how awesome it was. Too bad the screen was cramped :-/

 
Dude. I hate you for finding that :) NICE find.

I can't believe how hard it is to find Mac stuff around here. It used to be easy, but it all just vanished.

I get some good deals on PC stuff once in a while, but the thrift stores around here like to jack up their prices. I saw a lady today buy a 1.4GHz Athlon XP machine with very minimal specs and no KB/mouse/monitor for $250 at the fricken salvation army thrift store. I almost said something to her, but for some reason you can't explain things like that to some people.

 
Wow, what an amazing find! Finding one of those in a recyling centre is definitely a prepare-to-change-your-underwear moment. I'd like a Mac TV but I'm pretty sure they were never sold here and are NTSC only.

 
Yeah, since these are Mac TV-specific tuner cards, I doubt that they'd be easily changeable to a different video standard, unless someone out there is sitting on a pile of service parts for these things...

Pix shortly, along with pictures of my pre-production LC that I finally dug out of my storage unit.

 
But who the hell would throw out a Mac TV? With only 10,000 made, and probably nowhere near that number still in existence, you'd think that most people that are fortunate enough to own one would be aware of its exclusivity and collectors value.
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People who bought it exactly for its purpose. As a "consumer electronics" combo TV and computer. People who have ZERO idea of any "collectible" nature of it. Just that it's a marginal TV, and a horribly obsolete computer.

 
Wow! That's a nice haul you got there man! An old friend of my brother's had one of those. Sitting right next to his TAM machine (his dad was a doctor and was quite wealthy) so here you have two machines that are famous:
*MINT* condition MacTV and a BRAND NEW (read: $10,000) Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

Oh, and he had a Mac IIfx as well. The guy was a mac-head but he had some cool stuff. I got to be there the day Apple rolled out the red carpet and pulled up in the limo and brought it in and set it up.

Sorry, but that was just a cool event. Too bad apple doesn't do that anymore :(

Then again, you would expect them to do that @ THAT price ;)

But still, awesome score! I would LOVE to have that sitting in the corner of my room. I remember having a TV Tuner on my PowerMac 5200 and how awesome it was. Too bad the screen was cramped :-/
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Wow, must of been epic! When I saw the price for the first time I thought "Apple better hand deliver it to me at that price!" I then continued down the page and saw that they actually did...

 
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