End-all Mac collection - Macintosh Garden

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2011, September 30 - 2:28pm

Temporary Joe

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End-all Mac collection

Check out this amazing eBay offering:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Apple-Mac-Museum-sale-All-models-/14060...

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The collection of the collections

Nearly all the Apple Mac models from 1984 Macintosh 128k to the new iMac 27 i7
150 + Apple Computers
All functional (98%) except for a couple old ones

Check the photos... Worth a thousand words.

iMac
MacIntosh
PowerMac
Powerbook
Macbook
Mini Server
Xserve
G3 G4 G5
Quadra
Centris
20th Anniversary Macintosh
iSight
PowerPC and Intel
Domain name http://www.applemacmuseum.com included.
Softwares, posters, watches, mugs, t-shirts, name it. All original Apple.
Many many more items... mouses, modems, keyboards, printers, SCSI cables...

Not to be sale in pieces. It's all or nothing !
Furniture and desks not included

Conditions
Please bid only if you are seriously interested. By bidding on this item you are entering into a legally binding contract to pay for the item if you are the winning bidder.
If you do not intend to pay, please do not bid on this auction.
0 feedback bidder or negative feedback bidder, please contact me before making your bid.
I accept only Paypal Verified Buyer.
I reserve the right to close or cancel this auction at any time.

Shipping
Only to Canada and Continental United States. No P.O. Box (of course)
International Buyers, please contact me if you want to bid.
The cost will be huge !! Near a grand (1000$) or maybe more to the winning buyer. If you have any special shipping request, please contact me and i will try to accommodate you.
Shipping cost will be free with a buy-it-now.
Please note that the buyer will be responsible for duty taxes, brokerage and other fees.

I'm here to answer your questions.

Be happy and good luck.

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Seriously, if I had money (and space), I'd buy this! It's only about the price of four Macintosh IIfx computers at release...

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2011, October 1 - 6:44pm

xeter

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This site and its contents would really make a good complement to the Macintosh Garden site, it would be nice if some of our U.S. based people could make an offer on this. I don’t know what he is offering is realistically worth (his buy now price is comparable to a new car in NZ$), but there are certainly benefits of having all models of Mac (including rare ones like the 20th A. Mac) in one place for projects like software development.

2011, October 1 - 9:15pm

bertyboy

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Damn, it's ended. I would have bid on this and shipped it to Auckland. Then sell off the duplicates and those I didn't really want (keep only the IIci, IIfx, Qudra 950, Quadra 840av, PM8500, PM9600, PM6500, TAM, PMG3 (B&W).

Bet it's gone to that billionaires son in Italy, the one who collects Macs and paid $4m for the "original" Apple II.

2011, October 1 - 10:57pm

xeter

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They didn't use the Buy Now feature (set at U.S.$35, 000, which I referenced), from what I can tell it ran out its time (I was refreshing every few minutes to check). There was one bid on it, but if you are interested berty, it might be worthwhile contacting the seller (I don't know if it is the same person who ran the website or not). That sort of collection doesn't come round very often.

2011, October 2 - 3:00am

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It did seem like a more than fair price, I had to value (for marine insurance) my Mac collection when I emmigrated here - only fully loaded Mac Pro, PMG5, PMG4 MDD, PMG4 DA, Cube, 17" PBG4 and an SE, plus a few Apple Displays and external disks. Came to about $20,000. shipping cost was about 10% value, marine insurance another 3%.

Edit:
Relisted. Holy s**t, I'll need to check my savings ....

2011, October 2 - 4:31am

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Hello Berty, sounds like a fantastic auction! Let me know if you come close tho winning something. I'd be keen to get my hands on at least couple of them

2011, October 2 - 8:43am

bertyboy

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Mmm, I don't have that much money to burn. Lets just say I'll be buying a lotto ticket on Wednesday. If it's meant to be ...
If I was still contracting back in the UK I wouldn't have had to think about it for 2 minutes, If you add up the current items in the collection, plus the sought-after rares (Cube, TAM, etc) that's half the purchase price. There's iPads, MacBook Air, Apple TVs, iPhone 4, 2 IIfx.

If shipping didn't kill us, we could get together between us and buy it, and draw lots to see who gets what - by predicting something unpreidctable, ie. pick 10 numbers that may come up in the UK lotto on a day 3 months from now - you get the idea.

2011, October 2 - 10:17am

xeter

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Maybe your bank will accidentally put $10, 000, 000 into your account....

2011, October 3 - 6:45am

macwrench

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Is there a lot of demand for old Mac hardware? I have a lot of extra Powerbooks, Performas, Color Classics, printers, and other older hardware. Is there a forum area for swapping and requesting? I've recently sent a pile of discs to MCP.

2011, October 3 - 7:49am

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sheepmyshaver123

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macwrench: Can you list all of them (including discs)?

2011, October 4 - 10:26am

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Gonna be a fair sized list. Umax S900/G4/800, 5300c, 5300ce, 190, 190ce(PPC 117 ce board) Duo ( 210, 230, 270c, 280, 280c) 1400cs, 1400c, Stylewriter 2400(3), 1200, 2200, 4550c, Deskjets, PB 100, 140, 165, 108, IIsi, IIci/PPC100, iMac G3 400(4) 600, (5) DuoDocks (working), Performa 550, 575, 578, 5500/G3, (4) Color Classics (original and 575 boards). Kanga (no sound), 3400c/240.Numerous external SCSI CD rom drives. How's that so far? Most didn't come with any disc sets you don't already have.

2011, October 4 - 4:35pm

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Do you have install discs for that Umax clone, macwrench? I'm always on the lookout for discs from the Mac clones.

2011, October 4 - 7:28pm

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Yes, I found it. OS 7.6 with a big red S on it.

2011, October 5 - 8:53am

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sheepmyshaver123

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macwrench: can you list the disks/CDs that you have it? Send it to fort...@gmail.com.

2011, October 5 - 1:16pm

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Great! I'd be very interested in either an image or the disc itself (if you were willing to part with it).

2011, October 6 - 10:32am

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Sorry for the delay. Motorcycle oil change more important. You want a copy of the disc, or the disc? I'm mostly running 10.6. Redoing an OS 9 machine is a winter project. Sheepy, I have a Install Me First OS 7.1, 6100 7.1.2, OS 7.5.3 OS 7.6, 8.0, I think 8.1, 8.5 Lombard 8.6, iBook/iMac media sets of 9.1/9.22, 10.1/10.2. I'm going from memory, I forgot which disc case I put them in. RIP Steve Jobs.

2011, October 6 - 1:21pm

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No rush here. An image would be great, but I'd like to start getting more original discs so I'd also be interested in getting the actual disc. Is there a part number on it? I have a couple of Supermac isos here.

2011, October 6 - 1:39pm

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macwrench: All of your CD-ROMs in digital CD images in .toast/.iso files, no .dmg and you must follow this guideline in order to create genuine CD images. Please upload it to MediaFire as I cannot access to megaupload anymore

2011, October 8 - 6:02pm

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Hi MacWrench,
My search is almost complete but I'm still looking to max out what I have. I'm still looking for Radius Thunder IV GXs (or even a Thunder 24/GT), 8MB or 16MB 64-pin RAM SIMMs for my IIfx, an audiomedia II nubus card and other rare, expensive things.

2011, October 9 - 8:43am

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All I have are a Radius Rocket 25, a couple of RasterOps, 2 PCI Apple Dos cards. a 630 Dos card, Daystar 601 for IIci, Focus TV a couple of Mac joysticks. Lots of parts I guess.

2011, October 10 - 5:38pm

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berty, guess you didn't win Lotto on Wed.

If you are still interested in getting this, send me an e-mail through the guestbook ASAP
...since we are both in New Zealand.

2011, October 10 - 7:50pm

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Hi macwrench
Thanks for your list. Do send me a list (privately, if you prefer) of stuff that you're looking for. I have acquired quite a stash since I started trawling on eBay some 18 months ago. It's almost all stuff from Mac IIs upto PM8100s and parts therefore.
soudesune

2011, October 12 - 9:34am

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I've been grabbing from ebay since 1998. 3 Color Classics, 2400 printers, 3.5 SCSI HDs, and 68k Powerbooks were going up for sale. I was wondering if there was much interest here.

2011, October 22 - 3:35pm

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Could you image that Supermac CD when you have time? I'd love to have a look at it.

2011, November 10 - 10:17am

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Another thing I've found: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HUGE-Mac-Apple-MacIntosh-Lot-Floppy-Disk-CD-ROM-...

It just only these:

Flopies:
Taase Force (Tax and Accounting Software) Free Demo Disk
MacInTax 1994 Disk 1-4
Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh Disk 1-10
Microsoft Word 6.0 for Power Macintosh Disk 1-5
Microsoft Word for Windows Disk 1-6 (PC Software?)
GlobalFax OCR Disk 1-3
Microsoft Works Apple Mac Series Disk 1-6
The Norton Utilities for Mac (4 Disks)
PowerPort Mercury Install Disk
Microsoft Ballpoint Setup Disk
FAXcilitate Software Install Disk
Data Software SupraExpress for Mac Disk 1-2
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye for Mac Disk 1-4
Four Disks marked Claris Works 4.0
Impact! Lite (75 quality clip art graphics)
A few apparently blank 3M and Imitation disks

Cables/Parts/Accessories:

Macintosh PowerBook Video cable
...and others

CD-ROMs

US Robotics Connections
CardShop Plus!
Soft Windows for Power Macintosh (Run Windows on PowerMac)
Trivial Pursuit
The Family Doctor
Time Magazine 1995 Almanac
Bookshelf '94
Performa CD (Performa model?)
Cardshop Plus

Manual
Hypertalk Beginner's Guide: An introduction to Scripting (sealed)
Techworks 72-pin Macintosh Desktop Memory Installation Guide
Expresso Calendar and Address Book Reference manual
Hoyle Classic Card Games manual
Hoyle Vol 2 Solitaire manual
Fullpaint - The Professional Paint Program manual
The American Heritage dictionary manual
Apple Multiple Scan 14 Display User's Guide
MacInTax User Manual
Macintosh Performa User's Guide
Quicken for Mac Version 5 User's Guide
Quicken for Mac Version 5 Getting Started Guide
Quicken for Mac Version 5 User's Guide for Macintosh Performa Users
SupraExpress 144 Plus User's Manual
Macintosh System 7.5 Upgrade Guide
Powerbook Getting Started Guide
Powerbook Troubleshooting Guide
Macintosh Reference - system software information for the Macintosh
GlobalFax OCR User's Guide
FAXcilitate Reference Manual
MacComCenter Manual
The Norton Utilities Guide
SoftWindows User's Guide
Norton System Works 2002 User's Guide
Apple At Ease 2.0 Quick Reference Card
Apple At Ease 2.0 Owner's Guide
Pentium II Mainboard M74 User's Manual
Apple Resource Guide
MacGallery Clip Art Treasure Pak Quick Start Guide
ClickArt user's guide
Apple Remote Access Client User's Guide
PowerPort Mercury User''s Guide
PowerPort Mercury At Command Reference
US Robotics Sportster Installation & Troubleshooting guide
ClarisWorks User's Guide