Q840 av with 128 MB ram 1 GB HDD

[tor77]

I just got new computers in my collection.

One of them was the q840av described in topic. The guy did not want anything for it, but he claimed that his company had bought it for an unbelievable high price some years ago. I believe him.

But what was it? Can anyone speculate how much 128 mb ram and 1 gb hdd was back when Q840 was sold?

It booted right up and it feels "powerful" compared to my older 950.

He also gave me, complete new in box LCIII logic board upgrade.

Plus a color classic.

What a nice guy!

 

[Themk]

Quadra 840av is widely considered the fatest 68k mac ever. Nice find, can't believe you got it for free!!! That would have been one expensive mac back in the day!

I'm jealous.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Especially since the 840 is still working, right this very moment is the time to have the capacitors replaced (if you weren't intending on doing so / having that done already).  As plenty of other folks here can attest, once those machines succumb to the caps they're incredibly hard to bring back to life.

Congrats on the conquest; picking up two pretty desirable machines in working shape for free (it sounds like) is quite enviable!

 

[Cory5412]

Hey, congratulations, these are very nice machines!

I've had two 840s and I love them. Now that I've got a few different machines around, they legitimately feel a lot faster than some of the others. (Certainly, the 1GB disk in mine feels more sprightly than the 250MB disk in my 6100.)

Retail on an 840 with a 1-gig disk would have been $5100 or so in 1993. I used to have the invoice to a 16 meg RAM upgrade done on mine when it was new, and it was several hundred dollars. It wouldn't surprise me if a complement of a full 128 would've cost over $1000.

Add to that the fact that a display such as the Macintosh 16-inch Color Display was around $750 on its own, add some more to that if they upgraded the VRAM and used a bigger display, plus the $85 or $185 depending on the keyboard, and then software.

Computers used to cost a lot.

 

[Cory5412]

I was mistaken earlier about display pricing. The AudioVision 14-inch monitor was $729. The Macintosh 16-inch Color Display was $1299.

 

[rsolberg]

Based on period magazine ad pricing, I'd expect the 128MB (4x 32MB 72 pin SIMMs) ram upgrade to be in the US $4000-6000 range when the 840AV was shipping. By May 1996, RAM prices per MB had fallen significantly and you could outfit your 3 year old 840AV with the maximum 128MB for a whopping $2200.

 

[tor77]

Yes, He claimed it was well over 10k USD at the time, especially the RAM was huge!

There are no programs on the HDD, wonder what kind of software that was on it, probably QuarkXpress, photoshop and so on.

rsolberg, you Norwegian?

T

 

[rsolberg]

2 generations removed, but yes.