New-In-Box Apple //c goes for $2,553 on eBay...!

[Mac128]

But a never opened box strikes me as a modern telling of the emperor's new clothes.

X-Rays my dear Watson. That'll prove what's inside. Notarized if need be.

 

[Unknown_K]

I hear EPROM chips love X-Rays.

I can see the thrill of opening up a classic computer box and seeing an unyellowed and untouched machine. People have been known to spend countless thousands on old bottles of wine that are destined to never be opened (and if they did open it the odds are it spoiled anyway). Imagine spending a few thousand on a NIB Amiga 3000 just to open it up and find the battery leaked all over the motherboard and ruined it. I would rather spend alot less on a mint looking tested and functional machine, then I would not feel bad tossing the box since I have no room to store them anyway.

 

[benjgvps]

Does anybody here listen to MacBreak Weekly? This week they got the buyer of this on and talked to him!

 

[Cory5412]

I think it's really cool that there was still an Apple //C that had "never been opened," and even more cool that someone made the decision to open it up and start using it. Especially since that someone has a moderately decent digital camera, and has taken photos for the whole world to see.

 

[Patrickool93]

...moderately decent digital camera...

Lol, I love that you call a 10MP DSLR a "moderately decent digital camera" ha...

 

[Scott Baret]

I would open up a NIB Mac LC and NIB 12" Apple RGB if I ever found one. It would be just like March 1992 all over again.

 

[CaryMG]

Un-friggin'-beliveable ! lol

It gives hope that out there exists computers we all love that're brandnew.

And Blake -- your website rocks !

:b&w:

 

[blakespot]

Imagine spending a few thousand on a NIB Amiga 3000 just to open it up and find the battery leaked all over the motherboard and ruined it. I would rather spend alot less on a mint looking tested and functional machine, then I would not feel bad tossing the box since I have no room to store them anyway.

I spent $400 on a NIB Amiga 2000 back in 2000. It was lovely to open it.

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/amiga2000

blakespot

 

[blakespot]

Un-friggin'-beliveable ! lol
It gives hope that out there exists computers we all love that're brandnew.

And Blake -- your website rocks !

:b&w:

Thanks! Makes it worthwhile, such comments!

blakespot

 

[Unknown_K]

Imagine spending a few thousand on a NIB Amiga 3000 just to open it up and find the battery leaked all over the motherboard and ruined it. I would rather spend alot less on a mint looking tested and functional machine, then I would not feel bad tossing the box since I have no room to store them anyway.

I spent $400 on a NIB Amiga 2000 back in 2000. It was lovely to open it.

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/amiga2000

blakespot

I would be worried about the battery leaking after all that time and killing something. Was there any problem with that?

$400 seems more reasonable too.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I would open up a NIB Mac LC and NIB 12" Apple RGB if I ever found one. It would be just like March 1992 all over again.

I would die to find a NIB Performa 400 with the Performa Plus Display. I still have the boxes to every new Mac we ever bought, although some of the papers have managed to get thrown away. My 6500 is sitting in its box right now, waiting for the day my roommate moves out and I can take over the newly vacated bedroom and set up some of my old computers.

My mom was smart in keeping those boxes. Whenever we moved we always packed the computers in those boxes and they could ride in the van rather than taking up space in the car. The boxes are so rare now.