LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Today, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Adam Rosen’s former residence for the flea market. Everything there was listed as not worth selling, and everything was available for free. Personally, I was thrilled to walk away with the following (machines were listed as not working): -IIfx -Power Mac G4 Server -Multiple MacWrite/Project boxed sets, disks and tapes intact. System 6.0.8 boxed. - About 12 1.4 MB/800k auto inject Sony drives. Unknown as to function. -Four 400k drives (probably don’t work) as well as two empty 400k drive cases. -Two not so great shape HD20 SCs. -Various ADB keyboards. -One original Mac keyboard, and two number pads. -About 10 original phone jack serial keyboard cords. -M0100 mouse with original fat connector. -Mac Portable power adapter. - PowerBook monitor adapters (about five). - PowerMac AudioVision adapters. -About 10 Mac 128k/512k/Plus/SE logic boards in various states (I’ll bet all need repairs). -One SE/30 logic board which appears to have been re-capped, must have some sort of issue. -Radius NuBus care of some sort. -Various Apple-branded cables. - Two boxes of Apple disks and CDs, including a ton of Apple Sales Resource disks. -Every volume of Inside Macintosh. -The last Larry Pina books I didn’t have. -ResEdit reference book, second edition of Family Hardware, etc, etc. Also not pictured - Six compact Mac 9” CRTs (all appear intact). - Seven or eight Mac 128k-Plus and SE logic boards and power supplies. In all my life, I’ve never come across a more awesome or cool pile of stuff that was “not worth listing for sale” and was otherwise destined for the dump! Over the next few weeks, I’ll probably need help figuring out what some of this stuff is. Here’s hoping my wife doesn’t kill me... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trash80toHP_Mini Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Very nice! Such a generous contribution to the community by his heirs in his honor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crutch Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Fantastic! What are those big 3 ring binders? Is that a 3-ring edition of Inside Macintosh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
krishnadraws Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Great haul! What are your plans for all this amazing tech? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, Crutch said: Fantastic! What are those big 3 ring binders? Is that a 3-ring edition of Inside Macintosh? Apparently a “loose-leaf” edition. It contains volumes I-V and X. VI is a separate book that I got too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 minute ago, krishnadraws said: Great haul! What are your plans for all this amazing tech? Honestly: spread the wealth. In my usual way, when it’s time to part with things (when I catalog it all), I’ll either sell as-is for a low price or if I’ve repaired it charge a it for my time and effort. I want these things to go out to the community to help with restorations and to keep our machines running. I also think it fair to make a bit on the side for my time and effort to go through and test/repair things. I also just discovered a treasure trove of machine Install CDs and other such discs. Those will be imaged and sent to VTools for archiving. This could take me more than a year, if I am being realistic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
maceffects Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 WOW What an amazing find! Great work @LaPorta! Keep us posted on all the little odds and ends you find. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MOS8_030 Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Very nice save! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael_b Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 What a haul, congrats! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sstaylor Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) Those loose-leaf Inside Mac volumes sure would be relatively easy to scan & convert to PDF. Just sayin'. Assuming they're not already out in the wild. Nice haul though. And kudos to the heirs. Edited March 2, 2020 by sstaylor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, sstaylor said: And kudos to the heirs. Yes, I want to make it clear that I am extremely thankful to them, and to Mr. Rosen (posthumously) as well. I'll post more here as I tease out what is in there. Especially with the software, I just took, and would ask questions later. Edited March 2, 2020 by LaPorta Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArmorAlley Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Well done and congratulations. A haul is exhilarating. I've had two so far and I am happy for you. I almost sold a dual Bernoulli drive for next to nothing to Adam some years' back. I couldn't really test because I had no Bernoulli disk and the postage was something phenomenal. These are heavy things. I'm glad that his items are going to good homes. I (and half the community here) would love that IIfx, if you're not going to keep it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Unfortunately (for others), the IIfx is one of those unicorns that I thought I’d never find, so I think I’ll keep it. The G4 server, however, if I get it running, I’ll likely sell to someone who could put it to good use! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crutch Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 I’d be interested in that loose leaf Inside Mac if you ever decide you’d like to part with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
btober Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 12 hours ago, LaPorta said: Today, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Adam Rosen’s former residence for the flea market. Thanks for coming! I hope everyone will be following the items for sale on eBay. We'll ultimately have ~100 listings for some great things with reasonable starting bids, and making a purchase would be a great way to show appreciation for the efforts of Adam and his family. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
travistouchdown Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Amazing!!! Whats with the naked baby doll on the floor? I keed I keed.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 When you have a six year old and four year old daughter, other sorts of collections wind up alongside the machines... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Indeed, the items on eBay appear very reasonable. Will be looking out! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
olePigeon Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 I hereby officially certify this as an "Epic Haul." We need a ribbon for stuff like this. :P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 Now starting to go through. There is a ton of these sales and training DVDs. Anyone know what these are for and if anyone could use them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unknown_K Posted March 3, 2020 Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 How does a IIfx end up in the pile of not worth selling? The sales DVDs should be ripped to ISO and dumped at archive.org Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, Unknown_K said: How does a IIfx end up in the pile of not worth selling? The sales DVDs should be ripped to ISO and dumped at archive.org 1: You got me. I saw it and grabbed it with no questions asked. I didn't care what was inside. 2: All materials are going to be archived and uploaded to various sites. At the end of it, a real archivist can have the discs. I'm running out of space. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 (edited) Organized the floppies. Incredible amount of early system revisions piled under the system software stack. Hopefully it’s all still readable too. If anyone wants the Lisa disks, I don’t need them. Anyone need an image of the PowerCache IIci disk? Also: there’s a bunch of audio tapes with the MacWrite, etc boxes. Has anyone recorded these? I can bust out my tape deck and digitize them. Edited March 3, 2020 by LaPorta Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaPorta Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 Inside the IIfx: Just waiting to explode and utterly destroy this beast. No one must have been in here who knew anything, or they’d already be out. Counting my blessings on this one! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
olePigeon Posted March 3, 2020 Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 Wow, how much ram does it have? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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