6 Dec
2016
6 Dec
'16
2:49 a.m.
I'm not really active in any of the classic computing communities apart
from classiccmp, so I would appreciate it if others
could pass this
message around and see if this computer ended up in the hands of a
fellow
collector.
A good friend of mine who lived in Spring, TX (north of Houston) owned a
black Macintosh TV (1993 vintage). During a move many years ago (late
2010), it mistakenly ended up turned in as ewaste. I only found out late
this year (2016) that this had happened.
Given how rare/uncommon these machines are, chances are very high that it
ended up resold on eBay or similar instead of being scrapped. I have no
records of the serial number of the machine, but according to my archives,
I installed Mac OS 7.6.1 on it on May 5, 1998. It was also upgraded with
an 8MB SIMM but still had the factory hard drive.
If by some chance a fellow collector ended up with it, and if it still has
its hard drive and files intact, my friend would really like to obtain a
copy of her files (a disk image of the hard drive would be ideal). I
happened to still have a backup of the machine on a zip disk from May 24,
1998, but she had continued to use the machine off and on for many years
after that. I would also just like to know that the machine didn't end up
scrapped.