14 Apr
1997
14 Apr
'97
3:29 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
Well, today was a rather good day out at the swap meet, my first
excursion in a couple years.
I know that feeling... I've really got to get out more too!
<<< snippage >>>
So moving forward, I found someone selling a Macintosh
512K. Cool, I'd
been wanting to add a classic Mac to my collection for some time. But
this one was missing the keyboard and mouse. They only wanted $20 for
it. I tried talking them down but they didn't want to move. Later I
found someone selling a complete Mac+. Now this one I know was hot. At
first they wanted $50 but I talked them down to $15 (I used the "It's all
the money I have right now" ruse, except in this case it was true). I
really wanted to get the other Mac, because it was closer to the original
Macintosh, but this one was more complete, so I got it instead.
Now, I don't want to disparage the fine folks of Oakland, California, but
as I said before, I'm most positive this system was hot. They were too
willing to dump off a perfectly good Macintosh (at least I think its
perfectly good, haven't tested it yet) for too little money. Later on
when I was going through the software I got with it I found some BMUG
disks (BMUG = BayArea Macintosh User's Group). So I'll be contacting BMUG
to see if any of their members "lost" a macintosh within the last couple
months, and if I find a match I'll sell it back to them for what I paid.
(I'm such a nice guy, eh!?)
Well... as I was not there I can only venture a long-distance opinion, but
I've had almost no problem finding Mac Plus' in the $20 ~ $40 range. And
SE's for that matter for not much more. ($40 ~ $80)
Around here, they seem to have little value as they are not color, not
well supported (seems almost all recent software wants an '040 or above),
and not nearly old enough to be unique/collectable (like a '128 or '512).
So far, I've found it a lot more difficult to put the nab on a Mac 128
than just about anything else. But, just my take on it...
Not bad. And I'm still under my budget of $100
per month for classic
computer collecting (I just implemented that budget, but I think it may
be too high.
Ooh! Self control!! (I need some!!!) B^}
I tend to get carried away when collecting old
computer
stuff and, if left unchecked, would buy everything I came across. As it
is I just may go back for that Mac512K.)
Gopher it! ...and if you feel guilty later, I'm sure there are people out
here who will help!
Now I just need to keep my new booty hidden from my
fiance.
Oops... bad precident! Best to introduce them early on than risk an
unplanned discovery later!
What do you all think?
Think I just answered that one... B^}
-jim
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