Man selling a "priceless" 6100 on eBay

[bmacsys]

I don't see anything special about this machine. I have bought several ex-NASA Mac's, Livermore Lab Mac's, Los Alamos Mac's and they have all been in a rather stock form. Somehow this guy thinks a Mac is special because they used it at NASA.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160208959892

 

[LCGuy]

I think it'd be interesting to have a Mac from NASA...mostly because of its history

 

[TheNeil]

He probably thinks it's the machine they used to send Armstrong and Co. to the moon...or something

Kind of cool that it was used at NASA (just not $1000 cool)

 

[~tl]

Chances are it was a home computer that just happened to belong to someone who worked at NASA... Nowhere in the item description does it say the machine was actually used at NASA [8)] ]'>

 

[wood_e]

LOL I would NEVER pay even 1% of that for ANY performa.

 

[bmacsys]

Chances are it was a home computer that just happened to belong to someone who worked at NASA... Nowhere in the item description does it say the machine was actually used at NASA [8)] ]'>

I have won computers and gotten stuff in surplus auctions that had NASA, Livermore Labs, Los Alamos stickers and stamps on them with the hard drives pulled. They were just stock machine with nothing out of the ordinary about them.

 

[bmacsys]

Chances are it was a home computer that just happened to belong to someone who worked at NASA... Nowhere in the item description does it say the machine was actually used at NASA [8)] ]'>

Tom, this is a line pulled from his auction-

"I've done research to place value on this piece only to find that there is nothing compatible because of its origin (NASA)"

Sounds like he is stating it was used at NASA.

 

[~tl]

Chances are it was a home computer that just happened to belong to someone who worked at NASA... Nowhere in the item description does it say the machine was actually used at NASA [8)] ]'>

Tom, this is a line pulled from his auction-

"I've done research to place value on this piece only to find that there is nothing compatible because of its origin (NASA)"

Sounds like he is stating it was used at NASA.

Hmm, I took that to mean that he already thought it was from NASA and was just doing a bit of research into the price. I don't see any NASA inventory stickers on it either, which is what makes me think that this is the case...

 

[slomacuser]

maybe there are some NASA's secretary love letters written in MS Word for mac ... [] ]'> that could be interesting

 

[paws]

I believe that do to the nature of what may be on hard drives this item is priceless. If you have any questions please feel free to email us here at the store. If you are a representative from the government, I only intend to sell product because I have no use for it. If you are a representative from NASA I advise you purchase item and destroy.

Christ...

 

[Anonymous Freak]

LOL I would NEVER pay even 1% of that for ANY performa.

Some Performas were just re-badged normal models. As this one was.

The Performa 6116CD is just a Power Mac 6100 with a CD-ROM drive standard, and a certain load of "home" applications included.

Definitely not worth $1000, but it is worth at least as much as a Power Mac 6100. With the printer, I'd pay $10.

 

[macintoshman]

"I've done research to place value on this piece only to find that there is nothing compatible because of its origin (NASA)"

LOL! It wont run anything. Idiot. Is a light bulb from TSAGI priceless? NO.

Is a lamp from nasa priceless? NO!

IDIOT!

 

[Quadraman]

He's dreaming.

 

[Franklinstein]

I really doubt it's from anything other than a secretary's office, if it was ever at NASA at all. I mean, first off, that terrible Performa Plus display would not be the first choice for anybody doing anything with graphics, or at resolutions greater than 640x480.

Plus, it's a Performa. Sure, they're almost identical to their Power Macintosh derivatives, but often the Performas will be lower spec'd. This one is only 60MHz (as were all the 611X machines), and will probably have little or no L2 cache, for example.

The guy's English is atrocious, to boot. If you want that damn much for a POS computer that can't even be proven to have originated from NASA or anybody associated with NASA, at least make the listing coherent. And proof-read it.

 

[bmacsys]

He probably thinks it's the machine they used to send Armstrong and Co. to the moon...or something
Kind of cool that it was used at NASA (just not $1000 cool)

Did they actually go to the moon? [] ]'>

 

[juan123]

wow wtf haha weird.... It's priceless how stupid some people are these days.

 

[shu82]

He has it back up for $110 shipped starting. Maybe he took the insults to heart. But it won't stop me from sending more.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160213431675

I actually had a Lisa and a Plus I bought from Nasa when I was about 12, at the Picnic. My dumbass brother sold the Lisa for 200. I still have Plus. When you live in this town its not unusual to see gov't tags on everyone's stuff.

 

[JRL]

I think it's pretty stupid that he didn't even test the computer to verify what he claimed. :lol:

 

[Maccess]

And I have a 7100 that came from the Genentech Clean Room. It has Genentech engraved on the case and it was shockingly clean for a 10 year old machine (when I bought it).

It's less clean now.