"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/03/2016 at 09:15 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
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Reckon these will ever become collectable like the earlier ones? Guy wants $100 for both.
Believe it or not when I was in elementary school in 2004 they were still in the classrooms, although hardly touched next to the windows 98 machines.
someassemblyrequired
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 09:38 |
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Nice price all day long for bootable vintage rigs.
LtotheG
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 09:56 |
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100 is a deal for both considering the packaging is also included
KatzManDu
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 09:56 |
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Yours or someone else’s?
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Slant6
> KatzManDu
07/03/2016 at 10:28 |
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Someone else's.
Jack Does Cars
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 10:42 |
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I remember when the Windows 98 removed from my classroom after winter break in 2005.
And think about it this way, you could get these computers, or for $10 less a beautiful Honda D15...
That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 11:14 |
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Worth it for a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> Slant6
07/03/2016 at 11:27 |
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Great deal. The 512k alone is worth over $100 if you can get the short on the screen tracked down.
I have both a //c and a Macintosh Classic (came a bit later than the 512k... Mine has 1MB of RAM and a 40 MB internal HD). I keep them because I still like to tinker with them, but I’ve been watching the value creep up. They are less desirable than the original II and 128k, but as less and less of those are available, the prices of the later models are going up. They’ll never be super-collectible, but that is a good price. Think of how non-turbo Supras are up a little from the market bottom now that turbo prices have gone nuts, but they are still a lot lower.
My //c was bought new by my parents with an Apple monitor, second disk drive and dot matrix printer for around $1,500 in 1987. That’s $3,000 adjusted for inflation. Worth every penny IMO, because I got hooked on spreadsheets and programming in Kindergarten and that’s a big part of what got me into a good college and the hell out of Pittsburgh. (Which admittedly has really turned around from the dump it was in the late 1990's... I actually like going back now.) FWIW //c is my screen name over on the arstechnica forums, though I don’t post there much.
I got the classic for $10 at a flea market 10 years ago. Last I looked it’s probably worth around $100 on eBay so I did well on that one. Right now I’m trying to figure out how to shoehorn a TCP/IP stack onto it so I can use it as a text terminal to our high-performance cluster at work just to annoy my boss.
TL;DR I own similar old Macs and check prices occasionally. This is a good deal.