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Biggest liberation ever.
I won the Macs at school auction. The grand total came out to $18.18 USD for the entire lot (3 auctions). I had to get a U-HAUL to carry all of it and it cost more than the Macs did.
The lot consists of LC 575, 580, Power Mac 5200, 5260, 5400, and 5500. There's also an Apple IIe Platinum with matching display, 15" Multiscan display, and enough keyboards and mice to drive you crazy. For some reason the auction also included a bag of Microsoft serial and PS/2 mice (WTF?) and a Compaq PS/2 keyboard.
They are all sitting in my apartment right now, except for about 6 or so which are at a friend's house. The plan is to clean them up, and resell the majority of them for reasonable prices to those interested in such things. I might put some educational software on some of them to sell to people for their kids. Some of the newer ones like the 5260, 5400, and 5500 could be made into internet machines. The 5200/75s and 68Ks are probably too slow for that. Some of the Macs will be parted out if they have, for example a broken CRT.
We'll see how it goes. Nobody bid on these Macs except for me. More than likely they would have been disposed of which would have been terrible.
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Biggest liberation ever.
I won the Macs at school auction. The grand total came out to $18.18 USD for the entire lot (3 auctions). I had to get a U-HAUL to carry all of it and it cost more than the Macs did.
The lot consists of LC 575, 580, Power Mac 5200, 5260, 5400, and 5500. There's also an Apple IIe Platinum with matching display, 15" Multiscan display, and enough keyboards and mice to drive you crazy. For some reason the auction also included a bag of Microsoft serial and PS/2 mice (WTF?) and a Compaq PS/2 keyboard.
They are all sitting in my apartment right now, except for about 6 or so which are at a friend's house. The plan is to clean them up, and resell the majority of them for reasonable prices to those interested in such things. I might put some educational software on some of them to sell to people for their kids. Some of the newer ones like the 5260, 5400, and 5500 could be made into internet machines. The 5200/75s and 68Ks are probably too slow for that. Some of the Macs will be parted out if they have, for example a broken CRT.
We'll see how it goes. Nobody bid on these Macs except for me. More than likely they would have been disposed of which would have been terrible.
