View Full Version : Original Apple dumped at recycling center
henry_crun
31st May 2015, 09:07
$100,000 check awaits mystery Apple I donor - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28221648/100-000-check-awaits-mystery-apple-i-donor)
SpringHeeledJack
31st May 2015, 10:53
One man's rubbish is another man's treasure. I realise that this example is 'special' because of it's provenance, but it always amazes me what people throw out or leave at re-cycling centres, much of which is almost perfect or even unused :hmm:
SHJ
Better reused than recycled.
Gee, I wonder what one of the original IBM PC's would be worth today ... ???
onetrack
31st May 2015, 14:07
Well, I trust I won't have too long to wait, before my old 386 with Windoze 98 is worth a small fortune! :)
It's currently sitting on a shelf in the garage - but with the way my wife operates, it will be in roadside junk collection the instant she next goes through the garage, doing a clean-up of "all this useless old junk you keep!!" :(
(She threw out a prized A2-size, nearly full, beautifully-illustrated blotter pad, from a long-defunct equipment dealership, in the last clean-up!! The friendship was greatly strained over that episode!! These blotter pads were nearly unobtainable when new, and I doubt that many have survived). :{
seacue
31st May 2015, 20:00
386 windoze 98 is a modern PC. How about something running Windoze 3 / 3.1? I have the instruction book if you have the PC AT hardware. People I know had a contract from IBM to port Unix to the PC AT. Even versions with the 286 were S..L..O..W. Clock speed in the 7 MHz range didn't help. That was about 40 years ago. Apple has the advantage of being a religion - something I doubt the PC will ever achieve.
innuendo
31st May 2015, 20:12
Guess I should ask my brother to dig out my old XT with the 20 MB hard drive, (that was cutting edge at the time).
I think he still has it in his garage. Not sure where the monitor with the amber text is though. The IBM 9 pin dot matrix printer is long gone.
DeafOldFart
31st May 2015, 20:22
I used to write code on a Westrex teleprinter, 8 track, input to an Elliott 903 which occupied the room next door.... output was also to teleprinter.
Sound?? Video??? What's them???
There used to be a device at Greenwich that analysed wave form... output was a 6 inch green tube
Wonder what they are worth now....
ExSp33db1rd
1st Jun 2015, 08:42
Put my Apple IIC from mid-1980's on the local New Zealand clone of e-Bay, with $1 reserve.
Fetched $400+
Warmtoast
1st Jun 2015, 16:20
So back in the cupboard they go again until they appreciate in value - does this mean I'll be rich one day?
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Disk%201_zpsy6ufozro.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/7%20Disks%201_zpsspp1a7gx.jpg
Saab Dastard
1st Jun 2015, 17:11
Presumably you've still got the required MS-DOS v5 or above to with those Windows 3.1 disks?
Happy to sell you mine if you need the set! :p
Only kidding, I chucked them out oh... weeks ago! :;)
SD
Warmtoast
2nd Jun 2015, 11:03
Presumably you've still got the required MS-DOS v5 or above to with those Windows 3.1 disks?
You mean these?
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/MS%20Windows%20amp%20MS%20DOS%206-2_zpsx3d6pn32.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/MS%20DOS%206.2%20-%20Three%20Disks_zpsb4vimsuv.jpg