Sun Remarketing has been gone for a few years now, but Bob Cook is still around.
I finally got him to respond to a post on his own blog yesterday (hadn't posted in like a year). I have no idea what happened to their inventory, I'll have to ask Bob. >From what he's posted it sounds like most of the stuff is gone, but hints that he has some 'stuff' personally that he would be willing to share/sell with the community. I do remember ordering several parts from them for my Mac XL's and trying to hit them up for more software updates/compatibility for the XL machines. Those Mac XL conversions were a pain to maintain (not to mention the widget hard drive in them) but it sure was fun while it lasted! On May 21, 12:07 pm, Scott Baret <[email protected]> wrote: > I too miss the old days. I started with an Apple IIe in 1989 and then > discovered the Mac Classic in 1991. Later that year I began to use an > LC and loved it so much we got one for our own family. (My parents had > wanted to replace the IIe by then anyways). > > What I miss the most about older Macs is the troubleshooting. When I > started kindergarten I became the de facto tech support guy at the > school--our computer coordinator was only in one day per week so I was > basically the in-house technician despite being six years old. Our > school had all Macs and a few Apple IIs. The best part about > troubleshooting old Macs is that you never have to use a horrid Unix > command prompt. Sure, there are random error codes with the Sad Macs > and system errors, but as long as you had a decoder or knew the most > common types (such as 25 for out of memory) it was easy enough to work > with. Older Macs were also a lot easier to work on inside since the > components were larger, less smashed together (except in PowerBooks), > and the slightest bit more "industry standard" compliant than they are > today. > > Macs seemed to jump the shark when the Quadra 630 came out. That > machine was awful to work on, especially when trying to put the bezel > back on the computer. The late 1990s-early 2000s had some nice > machines (the original iMac, the clamshell iBook, etc) but then OS X > came out. At first I thought it would simply be a novelty like OS/2 > was on the PC but it wound up taking over. Sure, it's more secure than > Windows, but it's a pain to troubleshoot, isn't customizable like its > predecessor (it's actually easier to customize Windows 3.1), and while > the OS itself claims to be stable, I've had the Finder force quit on > me at least once a month and deal with application crashes all the > time. The worst part about it is that it's no more than a Unix shell > and runs on top of a horrid command line scheme. Mac users were quick > to extol their OS in the 1980s and 1990s for NOT being dependent on > DOS! Now it runs on top of something that makes DOS look as simple as > the alphabet! > > If there's any one machine that stands out in my mind since I started > working with computers it would have to be the original iMac, mostly > because of the shock of the computer not having a floppy drive, SCSI > ports, serial ports, ADB ports, or a traditional beige case. The iBook > is probably a close second, as I had been saving for a PowerBook since > I was five and finally had enough to buy the clamshell iBook right > before I turned 14. It also happened to come in orange, my favorite > color. I still consider the tangerine iBook to be my favorite machine > even with two newer Macs in the house. > > Sterling--whatever happened to Sun Remarketing? Did they go out of > business as I have heard? If so, what happened to the inventory? As I > recall they used to have a lot of old Apple parts and computers and > were the business who upgraded Lisas to have 800K drives and > compatibility with System 6. > > On May 19, 12:52 am, "Doug" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I remember back before the Mac Plus. I taught at a high school where they > > had several Apple IIE's that they would lend out on weekends and they also > > had a couple of Apple II C's, a "portable" machine that I actually used to > > write a novella on. It worked out to 250 one sided pages that I printed out > > on a daisy wheel printer that was hooked to an Apple III at school. > > Interesting times they were. > > > Doug- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
