11 Nov
2009
11 Nov
'09
5:07 p.m.
We've been watching netflix through the xbox 360 lately. They have a
documentary about apple that started out good, but sort of went down hill I
think. (it seemed a few years old, so you may have already seen it) But
toward the end, they showed a guy with a huge apple collection. He makes
all of us look like amateurs. He doesn't have a storage facility. He has a
6000sqft building. It looks like a small office building. He also had
machines in his basement, attic, and in a storage shed that looks more like
a 2-car detached garage. In the video I saw maybe 40 or 50 apple 2es. I
like stuff like this. It give me something to point my wife at and say,
"see, at least i'm not like that guy!" lol
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Welcome_to_Macintosh/70112046?strackid=7c44782…
brian
12 Nov
12 Nov
2:55 a.m.
Brian Lanning wrote:
We've been watching netflix through the xbox 360
lately. They have a
documentary about apple that started out good, but sort of went down hill
Agreed, it was pretty amateurish at the end and didn't really have a
clear message. There's another one (Macheads) that isn't any better.
To date, my favorite Apple documentary footage was the 1995 piece by
Robert X. Cringely (Triumph Of The Nerds), as there is some very honest
Jobs and Woz interview footage, especially more interesting as this is
before Jobs went back to Apple.
He doesn't have a storage facility. He has a
6000sqft building. It looks like a small office building.
To be fair, it *is* a small office building -- it's his business. He
just uses it for secondary storage of his collection.
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1:02 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
To be fair, it *is* a small office building --
it's his business. He just
uses it for secondary storage of his collection.
I guess that hadn't occurred to me that he would actually run a business out
of there. lol
brian
3:15 p.m.
Brian Lanning wrote:
We've been watching netflix through the xbox 360
lately. They have a
documentary about apple that started out good, but sort of went down hill I
think. (it seemed a few years old, so you may have already seen it) But
toward the end, they showed a guy with a huge apple collection. He makes
all of us look like amateurs. He doesn't have a storage facility. He has a
6000sqft building. It looks like a small office building. He also had
machines in his basement, attic, and in a storage shed that looks more like
a 2-car detached garage. In the video I saw maybe 40 or 50 apple 2es. I
like stuff like this. It give me something to point my wife at and say,
"see, at least i'm not like that guy!" lol
Uhh. I have single machines bigger than 40-50 Apple ][s. My collection
takes up *waay* more than 6000 ft^2.
Peace... Sridhar
1:20 a.m.
a 2-car
detached garage. In the video I saw maybe 40 or 50 apple 2es. I
like stuff like this. It give me something to point my wife at and say,
"see, at least i'm not like that guy!" lol
Uhh. I have single machines bigger than 40-50 Apple ][s. My collection
9:33 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Sure, so do I, and so do many others here. I think the
point is that we
(or at least I) don't have 40 or 50 almost indentical machines. OK, it's
reasonable to have multiple instances of the same machine to use for
spares, or to netowrk together, or because there are different models
that look similar, but not 40 or 50 of them (at least not in most cases...)
Yeah, this guy had 40 or 50 apple 2Es, 15 2GSs that I could see, maybe 20 or
30 mac LCs, etc. I have two 2GSs and two Amiga 2000s, etc. I can see
easily ending up with a couple dozen or more examples of certain machines
that I'd like to have, plus a spare or two, or even several identical
models, but with different configurations. Beyond that, I have to question
why one person would need all of these without extenuating circumstances,
like trying to start a retro computer business, or maybe for a museum or
something (who knows, maybe he is). As it it, it appears that it's only
serving to keep a large number of machines out of circulation. I'd love to
have a clean working Laserwriter 2. He had 8 or 10 stacked up. I almost
never see them on ebay (maybe my saved searches are filtering them out
though). No ill will though. I wish I had his collection. I'm sure my
wife is glad I don't. :-)
brian
9:54 p.m.
Yeah, this guy had 40 or 50 apple 2Es, 15 2GSs that I
could see, maybe 20 or
30 mac LCs, etc. ?I have two 2GSs and two Amiga 2000s, etc. ?I can see
easily ending up with a couple dozen or more examples of certain machines
that I'd like to have, plus a spare or two, or even several identical
models, but with different configurations. ?Beyond that, I have to question
why one person would need all of these without extenuating circumstances,
like trying to start a retro computer business, or maybe for a museum or
something (who knows, maybe he is). ?As it it, it appears that it's only
serving to keep a large number of machines out of circulation.
Oh, please...
The hundred (several hundred?) Apple machines that man has is not even
making a tiny dent in the supply, if he really is trying to keep
machines out of circulation. Most of what he has is incredibly common.
So common, that when I get (most) Apple machines during my business
dealings, I tend to scrap them.
OK, if they were Apple 3s or Lisas - a couple hundred might make a dent.
--
Will
9:59 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
Oh, please...
The hundred (several hundred?) Apple machines that man has is not even
making a tiny dent in the supply, if he really is trying to keep
machines out of circulation. Most of what he has is incredibly common.
So common, that when I get (most) Apple machines during my business
dealings, I tend to scrap them.
OK, if they were Apple 3s or Lisas - a couple hundred might make a dent.
I think it depends on what it is like you say. 2GSs seem to be all over
ebay for next to nothing for example, other things, not so much.
11:26 p.m.
I think it depends on what it is like you say. 2GSs seem to be all over
ebay for next to nothing for example, other things, not so much.
It remembers me how HARD is to find a IIGS here in Brazil. Even a
motherboard would help.
BTW, anyone with a spare Ramworks II or Ramworks III? :o)
13 Nov
13 Nov
1:49 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alexandre Souza <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com>wrote:
It remembers me how HARD is to find a IIGS here in
Brazil. Even a
motherboard would help.
BTW, anyone with a spare Ramworks II or Ramworks III? :o)
Or how about a 2e/2gs scsi controller?
There are great many machines that aren't here either. I'd like to have a
Sharp X68000. But that's unlikely to happen here. If one came up on ebay,
I'm sure it would have a ridiculous price. :-)
I just picked up a spare 2gs from ebay for the princely sum of $8. lol
Some of them go for quite a bit though if they include all the accessories.
brian
4:04 a.m.
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Subject: Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alexandre Souza
<pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com>wrote:
It remembers me how HARD is to find a IIGS here
in Brazil. Even a
motherboard would help.
BTW, anyone with a spare Ramworks II or Ramworks III? :o)
Or how about a 2e/2gs scsi controller? I just picked up a spare 2gs from ebay for the
princely sum of $8. lol
Some of them go for quite a bit though if they include all the
accessories.
brian
Depends what you do on the IIgs. If you just want to play games or a few old
apps you can get by with a simple system, monitor, keyboard, dual 3.5" and
dual 5.25".
I have a Transwarp IIgs, 8mb RAM card, rev C SCSI card, and I mostly just
boot from floppy and play games. All the extras are nice if you use GS/OS
and want to transfer images and files around (and read HFS partitions or
network with a Mac), but if you have an old Mac you can make usable disks
there.
You can still find systems on freecycle if you post a wanted, they will most
likely be basic setups (teachers seem to snag them for their kids and then
get rid of them when the kids get older).
12 Nov
12 Nov
9:45 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection
Sure, so do I, and so do many others here. I think the point is that we
(or at least I) don't have 40 or 50 almost indentical machines. OK, it's
reasonable to have multiple instances of the same machine to use for
spares, or to netowrk together, or because there are different models
that look similar, but not 40 or 50 of them (at least not in most
cases...)
-tony
Was that guy a scrapper who got in pallets of similar equipment and just
kept them? It seems if you can hold onto something a few years after most
get scrapped they tend to have some value again. I recall when most IIgs
systems were flooding the scrappers you could not give them away, now people
pay for them again. Apple II, II+,IIe have some value these days.
There are people with basements full of C64's, I kind of wonder why they
keep them all (since most seem to be in pieces and non working).
a 2-car detached garage. In the video I saw maybe 40
or 50 apple 2es.
I
like stuff like this. It give me something to point my wife at and
say,
"see, at least i'm not like that guy!" lol
Uhh. I have single machines bigger than 40-50 Apple ][s. My collection
9:56 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
Was that guy a scrapper who got in pallets of similar
equipment and just
kept them? It seems if you can hold onto something a few years after most
get scrapped they tend to have some value again. I recall when most IIgs
systems were flooding the scrappers you could not give them away, now people
pay for them again. Apple II, II+,IIe have some value these days.
There are people with basements full of C64's, I kind of wonder why they
keep them all (since most seem to be in pieces and non working).
They didn't say. He made it sound like he got them one at a time, but I
suspect he just cleaned out schools when they unloaded. One printer had a
some sort of waste sticker on it.
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