I got my se/30 almost 10 years for free. I got it from access storage at the university. The 40MB HD on it had failed and they considered it "not worthy of repair". I popped in a 1.2gb scsi drive that was pulled from a powermac and i was up and running (after replacing os 8.1 with 7.5.5 :-P), but that wasn't until 1999, it took me 5 years to be able to break into the darn thing.
My Plus I got for $20 at a Macintosh reseller about 3 years ago. This came with keyboard, mouse, 20MB MacBottom HD, 2 printers: imagewriter II and stylewriter (yeah, go figure), cables, and tons of floppy disks. The thing is in perfect shape, no discoloring or major scratches. Based on the contents left on the HD, a local lawyer had been using the thing for 10 years straight. I nuked the HD contents because i'm a nice guy. (saved the applications though)
My LC II i got for $15 at a local Rescue Mission. It came with a 15" apple monitor, 2 keyboards, 3 mice, all manuals, a 28.8k modem, cd-rom, software up the yingy (orginial packaging and everything), a "Macs for Dummies" book, and of course, an imagewriter II (you can never have enough dot-matrix in your life, or under your bed).
--Jeremy
On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Mike Piatek-Jimenez wrote:
Since people have been talking about SE/30s, I thought I would mention that SmallDog Electronics is selling a bunch of SE/30 Ethernet cards for $1. They are the Asante ethernet cards that I believe use the PDS slot, and they are brand new with a 90 day warrantee. I ordered a couple of them just a few days ago, and they should come in on Friday.
I also thought I would mention where I picked up my SE/30, for those who are looking to buy old Macs. Just a couple of years ago I found it at a very unlikely place, a church rummage sale. They were selling it for $5, and it was in perfect working condition (screen was bright, the disk still worked, clean overall). Since then, the 80mb hard drive in it died, but that was quickly fixed by plugging in an external SCSI disk. It will be nice to finally get it on the network this weekend. :-) Anyway, I think rummage sales for charities/churches are great places to find older Macs. I've also bought a PowerMac 4400/200 for $20 (now using it as a Linux server), and saw a couple of LC's, IIsi's, etc. Usually, if someone donates a computer to sell, it will probably be in decent working condition.
Mike
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