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| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-09-17 15:22:26 Grabbed a few Portland Craigslist lots: 2 working SE/30s 2 Classics (one working, one not) 1 SE "FDHD" badged 1 800k external 1 Apple 3.5" external 1 Apple 5.25" external 1 IIGS ADB keyboard 2 short board telephone style keyboards (one in styrofoam box) 2 extended telephone style keyboards 3 Keyboard II 1 soft compact Mac carry case Total: $50 | |
| Posted by: kite210 on 2011-09-17 18:56:46 Nice finds, really makes me wish I hadn't moved out of oregon, so much stuff to find. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-09-17 21:55:38 My bad - it's two Keyboard IIs and one Keyboard (I). Also - the FDHD has a hidden upgrade - a Quantum LP hard drive install on some aftermarket red aluminum sled:  So it's dual superdrive and an internal HDD. It also has the programmer switch in the side. Claris CAD is installed on the HD. Oregon has been pretty good with the old Mac stuff. I drifted out of the vintage scene for a while after I got divorced in 2006. It seems like 2000-2005 were the boom years for finding discarded Macs and accessories for virtually nothing. The amount of stuff I had to throw away when I moved makes me a little ill today. | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2011-09-18 04:43:37 2000-2005 seem to be very good years for me as well in collecting (not just mac either). I wonder what the hobby was like pre 1999 (isn't that when ebay took off)? These days everything has a price associated too it, back then it was just unwanted junk. | |
| Posted by: bigmessowires on 2011-09-18 08:00:44 All that stuff for $50?? Wow! Back in 1989 I had a dual floppy + HD Mac SE like the one in your photo. I bought the HD and sled from some company that advertised in a Mac magazine. I got a 40MB drive, and the total cost was still cheaper than buying a Mac SE w/HD 20 from Apple. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-09-30 23:20:02 Grabbed a PowerBook 140 for $10 tonight. It turns on, I get a chime but no happy Mac or disk. The SCSI drive spins up and down. I'll be checking it out further in the next couple of days. | |
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2011-10-01 07:17:55 やった！You really seem to have some luck with that. There's never any good Mac stuff for the taking down here. 🙁 | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-01 14:59:10 Looks like bad caps on the display so it looks like a digikey order is in my future.Sounded like it booted fine from the floppy, though. I may have to give the old 40mb Conner HDD a good whack before finding a new one. | |
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2011-10-01 19:58:26 Older Macs weren't really cheap until 1998-1999. The best deal I saw pre-1998 was a stripped LC at a secondhand computer store for $25 without a monitor (I don't recall there being a keyboard or mouse either). I'm not sure if it even worked. In the mid-1990s, a compact could still fetch a few hundred (keep in mind a Classic II could have been only two years old in 1995). Pre-eBay, the best way to get them was through the classifieds in your paper. Remember those? They didn't start turning up in school surplus or yard sales until around the time eBay came along. You could also check a computer shop to see if they had one sitting around. I got a Plus at a store specializing in upgrades in 1999 (this was the first Mac I bought to go alongside my LC and essentially the one that started my collection). It cost $50 and came with 4MB RAM, MS Works 2.0 (including every manual), a dust cover, and an external hard drive (a 20SC case with an 80MB drive inside). Original boxes for both the Plus and hard drive were included. (The only missing items were the little yellow disk protector and the Mac Plus manual). The man who ran the shop tossed a pair of LocalTalk boxes in for free so I could connect it to my LC. He also had a IIx and some sort of LC/Performa 500 series for sale. (I still have that Plus--it's one I'll never part with). School surplus was huge from 2000-2005. Many of my Macs were acquired that way, including an iMac G3 (in 2005!) and a Color Classic. (Schools usually had tons of IIes, IIGSes, Classics, LCs (all models), occasional SEs or Pluses, a ton of ImageWriters, and later on the 5xx/5xxx computers in these sales). | |
| Posted by: macman142 on 2011-10-02 18:57:49 Great recollection Scott Baret. Also, mcdermd that's an awesome pickup for $50. Is the keyboard in the styrofoam original packaging just without the cardboard slip? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-03 10:42:27 Yeah, one keyboard was in the original styro box without the paperboard slip cover. They all had their RJ11 cables. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-03 14:31:24 I replaced two capacitors in the PowerBook 140 screen and it has come back from the dead. Unfortunately, the Conner SCSI drive inside is dead. It spins up but won't read and it looks like someone was aggressive in taking it apart at one point because they gouged the heck out of the adapter SCSI chip. A nice, big stab to the pins on it from what would appear to be a screwdriver from the side. Pretty mangled. | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-08 19:29:06 Went out junk shopping with my wife today. Picked up a Powerbook 100, Powerbook Duo 270c with adapter and battery charger plus a graphite Airport base station (no adapter) for $10. Then happened upon a bunch of sealed Apple floppy labels, vintage stickers, a Powerbook floppy drive expansion bay module and an Atari 7800 for $5. Rounded it out with five pro mouses for $3 each.  | |
| Posted by: macman142 on 2011-10-09 17:44:15 Damn that's an awesome conquest! Nice pics too. | |
Posted by: macinbot on 2011-10-09 22:10:12The 270c's screen looks super bright and clear. Low mileage maybe? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-09 22:30:40 I'm used to the screen in my 520c and older black and white ones so I was surprised at how bright and clean that 270c's is. Now I just need to find some sort of dock so I can do a clean OS install. | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2011-10-09 22:36:00 Nice score(s), it looks like the 270c screen is almost Photoshopped in! Enjoy that FPU-equipped subnotebook 🙂 | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-10-23 00:54:50 I found I couldn't resist original boxes ... I bought the Wallstreet on Portland Craigslist for $30. The thing looks brand new. Not a scratch on the AC adapter. It came with all the original boxes plus two batteries, all the doc, software and the original leatherette pouches for the CD-ROM and ZIP drives. Probably one of the nicest machines in my collection now. 233MHz G3, 512MB L2 cache, 192MB RAM, 2GB HDD, CD-ROM, Zip100, Mac OS 8.6. | |
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2011-10-23 20:25:24 The Conner 40MB laptop drives you mentioned are notorious for problems. Most of them will power on, but the head won't move from resting position. A good whack on the side will fix it temporarily. Your best bet is to get one of the IBM-branded 2.5" drives. | |
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