Comments on: "my god. it's full of macs." - superpixel

"my god. it's full of macs." - superpixel

Kattullus — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:10:00 -0800

Basement Mac collection via Cult of Mac. If you want to check out the tech specs on them Apples, go to The Macintosh Museum or the Low End Mac Museum. For more Mac history visit The Apple Museum or The Apple Museum.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:24:24 -0800

Dont forget everymac.com.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:37:05 -0800

i thought i knew my macs, but ive never even heard of this one!

By: matteo

matteo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0800

phaedon: and suffered from being overpriced and under-powered. never happened since, thankfully. lol

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:46:57 -0800

Makes me want to fire up my 128 in the basement. Still got it. My first computer.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:55:53 -0800

that's healthy.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:13:21 -0800

phaedon writes "i thought i knew my macs, but ive never even heard of this one!" That was one of Apple's most famous flops, mostly because of its extraordinary price.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:15:37 -0800

Cough self link Cough

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:29:10 -0800

Hey, cb, what the self-link?

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:29:58 -0800

er... what'S the self link?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:30:48 -0800

I can walk through that list and say "had it, wanted it, skipped it, loved it, WTF?, miss it, best of the bunch, crap..." The Mac IIcx was my real workhorse. Back in the early 90s, clients would send their Powerpoint or Persuasion files to my BBS (Spider Island on an old SE30) at close of business day. I'd image their slides to a Mirus or and Agfa all night and deliver them by noon. Sleep from 1 to 5. Rinse. Repeat. Practically printed money.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:30:52 -0800

i thought the quadra 840av i bought was expensive, but shit, 7500 for a mac is far out.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:34:00 -0800

Egad. SuperMac! A friend who transferred his medical illustration skills from airbrush and compressor to Photoshop and a Wacom tablet actually bought one of those. On a lease. Cripes, he paid on that for five years.

By: DragonBoy

DragonBoy — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:34:32 -0800

That's it, I'm selling my puny Mac collection. All I've got is about 12, all used to be mine. I didn't see the Mac Portable though. I wonder what mine would be worth these days?

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:35:20 -0800

I've got a 20th Anniversary Mac sitting in the basement, in the original box. Still runs like a champ and the Bose sound system is great. A beautiful design, and the machine is still functional. I have a tivo hooked up to it. Since everything around here is on the network, I can stream music from my powerbook to the Tivo, which then uses the screen and sound system on the 20th mac to play through the Bose system... how many 10 year old computers can do that!

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:40:24 -0800

When the iMac first came out, a friend had 30 or so old SEs in his basement which he proceeded to paint the shells in the grape, bondi, green, etc. colors of the iMac line. He installed a screen clock so it would begin at start-up as a screen saver and sold them to members of the user group. He called them (wait for it)... tiMacs

By: rollbiz

rollbiz — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:59:40 -0800

I didn't see the Mac Portable though. I wonder what mine would be worth these days? Ahh, the "Luggable". I'd say you owe 10 bucks to anyone who will carry the thing home...

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:01:17 -0800

Hey, cb, what the self-link? Sorry, that was a shameless self-link by me.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:03:21 -0800

My first Mac was a Centris 610 -- 16mb of ram and an 80 mb hard drive. I bought Photoshop 3 with it, and it worked like this: Select TIFF file to launch, go get a coke. Make some adjustments in curves, hit okay, go to lunch. Return from lunch, hit save, and go shoot some film in the camera, or something. When finished with a job, I'd have to delete in from the drive to make room for the next, and re-start the machine to clear the RAM. I went big-time when I got a 500 mb external drive that could hold a whole MONTH'S worth of work, and a 44 mb syquest to shuffle files around town. Wasn't managing SCSI id's fun? Ah, the good old days. It's easy to forget how far we've come.

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:55:08 -0800

My first Mac was on an Amiga. The Mac came on a floppy disc with this bizarre "8-Ball" demo.

By: Sukiari

Sukiari — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:15:25 -0800

I used to have an Appletalk network of four Mac IIcxs that was strictly for playing Spaceward Ho. With the right crowd that is some great drunken fun!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:39:00 -0800

Oh man, I had completely forgotten about the existance of Spaceward Ho! What a fabulous game that is. That and Dark Castle are the games that bring tears to this ol' macgamer's eyes.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:39:03 -0800

I applaud the savant collector - I've 7 typewriters crowding my living room along with two old-school, tube based radios and a handful of vintage transistor models. But each item in my small collection is unique and different. While I have 7 typewriters, I have 7 different examples of typewriters. A basement full of iMacs and Mac Classic machines, all of them more or less identical and stacked up, is a bit odd. Something about the mass of computers and its careful organization made me a bit sad. Evidence of a certain obsessive compulsion rather than a joyful collection. But who am I to judge? I covet that 20th Anniversary Mac like you wouldn't believe. When they were initially announced I contemplated selling my body to finance the purchase. Even now, I get a bit choked up thinking about it. Someday, if I've obscene amounts of expendable income, I'll track one down and install it in a DeLorean.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:59:53 -0800

dude doesn't have a Cube, does he? YOUR OBSESSION HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:13:46 -0800

Hey, cb, what the self-link? Sorry, that was a shameless self-link by me. Ohhhh gotcha! And don't call your own self-link shameless. Indeed, it was shameful. :)

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:18:40 -0800

In a comment on one of the flickr photos he says he's got a cube in his loft. He does say he's missing a Lisa, however.

By: psmith

psmith — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:18:56 -0800

hal9k: The SE30 was a great, great machine. I ran a BBS on mine as well (using Hermes, the WWIV clone) for several years, from around 89-94. Good times.

By: Sukiari

Sukiari — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:41:39 -0800

Speaking of Ho! Spaceward Ho! 5 is out and has tcp/ip play. Great fun can be had.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:24:50 -0800

im so glad i didn't kill myself yesterday

By: quin

quin — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:56:03 -0800

I've long held a dream of taking the Mac SE that the Wife gutted to make a fish tank (which unfortunately never happened), and turning it back into a modern machine. I was going to fit a mini into it, with a color touchscreen mounted in place of the old CRT. As an extra added bonus, I had always hoped to find a wireless screen that I could pop out of the casing to use remotely (unfortunately while such beasts exist, they are expensive and don't work very well). I still have the empty case, maybe one day I will have the spare cash and energy to get around to finishing that project. And just for fun, if it ever does get done, I'll run a fish-tank screen saver. Just for the Wife.

By: dmd

dmd — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:03:21 -0800

What I truly covet is a room full of BeBoxen.

By: theducks

theducks — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:07:10 -0800

I have a Cube and a Macintosh Portable (and many others.. No TAM though. They never sold them in Australia, and shipping one out here is worth more than my relationship ;)

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:10:12 -0800

I don't see any of the colorful iBooks... perhaps he would like to pay me a ridiculous sum for mine, it still works!

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:57:05 -0800

I bet that guy get laid... A LOT.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:02:08 -0800

I bet that guy get laid... A LOT. Well, he got screwed by several models.