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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Mac 128k and a Mac Classic! | Posted by: Huxley on 2008-01-13 15:48:42
So, today makes one full week since I relocated to my new store. I'm now the Apple Solutions Consultant in the Albuquerque Best Buy store. My Apple Shop is right near the front of the store, alongside the line of folks at customer service and the Geek Squad counter. Yesterday, I got to chatting with a woman who was waiting to have her PC notebook serviced, and she mentioned that she'd used a Mac years ago, but had since moved over to Windows. I ended up giving her a full demo, and she left very happy and interested in an iMac for her next computer purchase. While I was demoing the DotMac Photo Galleries, she noticed some pics I'd posted of the SE/30 that I was working on a few weeks ago - "That's it! That's the old Mac I used to have!" was her reaction upon seeing those pics. I laughed and mentioned that I've got a decent collection of vintage computers, and the SE/30 is a recent addition from another customer.
So, I came back from lunch today to find that she had dropped off two old macs for my 'museum' - a 128k (which may have been upgraded to a 512k) and a Classic. Sweeeeet!
The Classic is bare, and pretty beat up, but the 128k is in nice condition (though more worn than the one I have already), and has both the stock keyboard and mouse, all in a tan Apple carrying case (unlike the forest-green one I have with my existing 128k).
Gotta love generous customers!
Huxley
| Posted by: bigD on 2008-01-13 16:05:48
Very cool!
| Posted by: MacMan on 2008-01-13 16:45:24
She must have really appreciated the demonstration of the new Macs that you gave her. A nice haul, especially the fact that one of them is a 128K!
| Posted by: funkytoad on 2008-01-13 17:25:32
wow, thats great!
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-01-13 18:03:04
I have gotten a beige G3 and a Graphite 600 MHz iMac from customers. Never anything really vintage, though.
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-01-13 18:10:53
Nicely done mate!
| Posted by: Christopher on 2008-01-13 20:44:01
Yeah the most vintage I got was that 8500, but its not even stock really.
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