They sold 10,000 Apple TVs. That's a lot. You lost track of one ten years ago, and have given no real methodology for discerning it from any other- the number out there with OS 7.6 or 8mb of ram will be significant.
Perhaps you should go door-to-door, or hang flyers. It would probably yield better results. On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Tothwolf <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not really active in any of the classic computing communities apart > from classiccmp, so I would appreciate it if others could pass this message > around and see if this computer ended up in the hands of a fellow collector. > > A good friend of mine who lived in Spring, TX (north of Houston) owned a > black Macintosh TV (1993 vintage). During a move many years ago (late > 2010), it mistakenly ended up turned in as ewaste. I only found out late > this year (2016) that this had happened. > > Given how rare/uncommon these machines are, chances are very high that it > ended up resold on eBay or similar instead of being scrapped. I have no > records of the serial number of the machine, but according to my archives, > I installed Mac OS 7.6.1 on it on May 5, 1998. It was also upgraded with an > 8MB SIMM but still had the factory hard drive. > > If by some chance a fellow collector ended up with it, and if it still has > its hard drive and files intact, my friend would really like to obtain a > copy of her files (a disk image of the hard drive would be ideal). I > happened to still have a backup of the machine on a zip disk from May 24, > 1998, but she had continued to use the machine off and on for many years > after that. I would also just like to know that the machine didn't end up > scrapped. > -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS [email protected]
