Most epic trade/conquest?

[xypex982]

So I trade a p4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram, Gateway that I never really used to ckhthd for his huge collection of macs and mac stuff. Never owing a mac except an apple II many years ago I was PUMPED to say the least! So I cruise over to his house at on Thursday and as I get out of my friends car I am stunned by how much stuff im greeted by. I get the following:

1 G4 Sawtooth 400mhz

2 G3 B/W 350mhz

2 Beige G3 (one pizzabox one tower)

2 Mac IIci

1 LC III

1 Quadra 650

1 Quadra 610

3 Apple 13" RGB monitors

2 21 Apple studio display monitors B/W style/era

1 17 inch Apple studio display B/W

1 external HD

1 External CD ROM Apple brand

External backup drive system

1 Apple Image writer II printer

1 HB deskjet apple printer

apx 8 keyboards and mice (Apple) ADB

2 USB keyboards

a bunch of

boxed software.

a box of various cables and hard drives, adaptors etc.

collection of all the Mac Operating systems from 6-9

OSX 10.28

A big box of mac books

and a box of ram from pc100/133 to 33pin ram

and more stuff I can't recall

It FILLED the trunk of my friends lincon and the back seat, and the back was very low to the ground from the weight, and me and my two friends had to sit in the front on the way home lol. I have been working like crazy on the B/W and g4 sawtooth macs so far and am having a blast on 10.4.11 on the sawtooth.

I let my buddy who drove me there have one of the 21' studio moniters as a gift, and wow is it a huge upgrade form his 17' LCD @1280x1024

*pics*

http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s128/xypex982/the%20trade/

 

[Temetka]

To the lounge with ye...

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Is that an FDHD Unidisk 3.5? I never knew there was such a thing! All 4 of them that I've ever had were double-density.

AWESOME haul!

 

[xypex982]

Thanks, umm not sure to be honest Dennis, what makes you say that?

 

[LCGuy]

The price was most certainly right.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Thanks, umm not sure to be honest Dennis, what makes you say that?

Looked it up, and indeed it is an "Apple FDHD External" drive, compatible with both Apple II and Mac. Very cool. You could read HD disks with a Mac Plus with that drive.

 

[Bunsen]

WOAH. You got all that for a P4? Don't they give them away in breakfast cereals these days?

OK, I won't argue. EPIC.

 

[TheNixer]

Yep, that's a pretty epic conquest. And the trade meant you got rid of a PC, making it super-epic.

 

[xypex982]

What is this?

I think it is a ram upgrade for the card but any idea on how much it would upgrade it by? I dont have any vga setups to try it out on.

 

[coius]

not bad. I traded an IBM NetVista Pentium 2.63Ghz to MacDan (Which he still needs to ship the trade) for a Sawtooth G4. Hopefully that comes soon (Hint hint MacDan , J/K)

 

[Scott Baret]

I once traded a LaserWriter Plus and a IIx for a boxed Mac 128K. Still had the plastic wrap and everything on it.

 

[coius]

I once traded a LaserWriter Plus and a IIx for a boxed Mac 128K. Still had the plastic wrap and everything on it.

Wow, that was an excellent conquest. That's probably the best trade (on your end) that I have seen. When I sold my 128k Mac that I got for free without keyboard/mouse/disks, I got like $200 on eBay, and it was heavily Yellowed!

Some dude in Japan bought it. He worked at a PDA Company, since I translated his Company name, and it was something related to a PDA Hardware company. I hope he put it to good use...

Those crazy Japanese and retro horde-ness

 

[funkytoad]

Super-Epic to say the least!!! Congrats dude!

 

[Mike Richardson]

My most epic conquest was probably the second time I bought from the school auctions, from Klein ISD. I rented an 18 foot U-Haul and she loaded 5 pallets directly on the truck. The first time I bought from the auctions, it was from Humble ISD and I only rented a Ford cargo van for 2 pallets. Despite saving me tons of time though renting trucks/vans is too expensive so I don't do it anymore. I did get to borrow a Ford Explorer last time I went to Humble, that saved me some time instead of doing 2 trips.

 

[Bunsen]

What is this?

I'm 99% certain that's a DVD hardware decoder card, for playing video DVDs under OS 9. If the card itself is a Rage 128, I think we can say for sure that's what it is. It's not supported under OS X

 

[Rodus]

@xypex982, Bunsen is right. Thats the DVD decoder on a 128. My B&W G3 came with one. AFAIK it doesn't work under OS X.

 

[Unknown_K]

My most epic liberation must still be the one I did in Cleveland 3 years ago.

Drove up for a free 950 PS I needed at the time and hoping to snag misc cables from a guy who needed space back.

Ended up with the following (all free):

Shelf full of boxed Mac graphics apps and utils for 68k and early ppc

Boxed Apple II games

A stack of nubus cards including 2 radius rockets

WGS 95 in mint condition with the 5 drive tray

spare Q950 with a couple sets of 16MB SIMMs

a SCSI tower with 3 9GB AV drives and a 1.3GB MO drive

A huge box full of 1.3GB MO 5.25" media, half shrinkwrapped

misc cables and terminators

A/UX for the wgs95 shrinkwrapped and never opened in the box along with all manuals, apple branded DDS tape and tape cleaner, and the 4 never used feet for the wgs95.

Filled up my trunk and back seat all for free.

 

[xypex982]

Ok, thanks for the help, so ill just pull it off when I pop it back in the B/W since I put panther on them.

 

[Bunsen]

Well, if you even want to watch DVDs on that machine, you can always reboot into 9. Or of course get a better video card.

If you decide to sell the DVD card ....