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Most epic trade/conquest?
Posted by: MacG4 on 2008-08-23 12:59:21
my best conquest was getting a mac tv for $25 at a garage sale 5 years ago
Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-08-23 20:35:10
I forgot to mention another conquest I had once...

I was over at a music store talking to my mom about what I was going to do with one of my Macs. A lady who was there overheard me talking about older Macs and asked me if I wanted any. Turns out she was a tech coordinator for a school and they were about to dump a bunch of Apple IIe computers! I was only 14 at the time so any local pickup was a good thing–I was too young to be eBaying and the last thing I wanted to see was a bunch of good machines go into a dumpster (which is where they were headed if I hadn't come in!)

A few days later I loaded up my mom's minivan with three Apple IIes, three ImageWriter IIs, three huge composite IIe monitors, a whole box of 5.25" floppy drives (UniDisk and DuoDisk), an entire folder of Apple stickers (which I have sadly misplaced since then), manuals for everything, a few unopened boxes of blank 5.25" disks, a ton of serial mice (the rare Mouse IIe and Mouse IIc kind!), the original system disks for each machine, and a disk notcher! (I could have had about seven more but I didn't have room in either the van or my house!)

To make it even better–a few days before I met this lady I had scored a sweet garage sale conquest–for $21 I got a Mac SE FDHD, a MacTilt stand, several original Apple II games (including an excellent version of the old Parker Bros game "Clue" published by (I think) Virgin Entertainment (it's got a red label and has the board game logo from the 1980s on it if you come across one) on 5.25" disk) and an original Apple III manual (but no Apple III).

I only have one of the IIe systems today and have only a few of the parts from this deal (I also still have the SE FDHD from the garage sale) but seven years later consider it an excellent conquest. What I couldn't use others could–I gave one of the IIes to a friend. Not everything worked out of the lot–there was a half-dead ImageWriter II and a mouse without a ball among other things and some stuff got axed for parts but I got years of enjoyment from the deal.
Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-08-24 05:38:42
Ah well, if it's going to turn into one of those threads ...

A few years back I was crossing a vacant lot in the middle of the city and found a cardboard box containing a complete and working early 1980s Bang & Olufsen stereo, with the speakers.
Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-08-24 10:17:58
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.
If they did, I would have to sleep in the crawl space.

My best conquest was when my friend's dad found a bunch of old PowerBooks and gave me 2, along with some other things (Powerbook 100 floppy, one phonenet adapter, ADB mouse)
Posted by: skeletor on 2008-08-24 14:45:12
I once traded a LaserWriter Plus and a IIx for a boxed Mac 128K. Still had the plastic wrap and everything on it.
That's a greeeat haul...

my great haul...from a 'yard sale'...asked a wo-man, (LOL) if she had any other macs..besides this duo floppy SE...($5.00) and she takes me into

her garage, where she shows and sells me a LISA..in the original boxes,

manuals, lisa office suite, apple stickers, 2nd version of Lisa, before

it mutanted into the Mac XL...My eyes just about popped outta me

skull, seeing that ' pre macintosh' and I took it home for $ 20.00

and best of all, it booted up...despite some battery leakage..which I

pulled and cleaned it up.

turned out her ex-hubby owned a graphics biz, and manuals writing

and bought it for the company...spent over 9 grand for it..

I got it yrs later..for a double sawbuck..($20.00 )

the apple god smiled on me..

on a lesser note.....got the first issue of mac world, with JESUS JOBS

on the cover,with three 128k macs (1984) yard sale..

for a whopping 25 cents...
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-08-24 15:37:28
I got the 1st year of macworld with 5 boxes of macworlds and macuser magazines I wanted from 89-93, just for shipping (and that was like $50 media mail)
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