$1,500?? I agree that's just crazy. Maybe a Lisa or Macintosh 128K in
the box... but not the ANS. At this point they're old enough to be
outdated, but not old enough to be vintage collectors items. Sorry to
break it to you... But have you not been listening to the other
posters on this list? From what everyone's said, sounds like you'd be
lucky to get $300 for them.
-Elliott
On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Mac Book wrote:
> I would have sold it for $1,500, but ill just keep this neat thing.
>
> But some day it might end up on ebay! or might trade for a nice
> riding lawn mower who knows :P
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:09 AM, leaknoil <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> You guys are wasting your breath. He obviously thinks its worth more
> then it is. Everytime you say it isn't worth that he just thinks it
> must
> be worth even more and you are trying to trick him out of it.
>
> The ans is an abomination. Crappy as a server and as an Apple. There
> is
> nothing at all good about it and could only ever have been made when
> Jobs wasn't around. It was junk.
>
> If you really must have one they aren't that uncommon. They show up on
> ebay from time to time. Just have to figure out how to get it to you.
>
>
> Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Mac Book <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Thanks John for letting me know, Looked on
> >> everymac.com, The Network
> >> servers were $19,000 new, Will do some searching around on a
> >> good price. I personally will not sell them cheap.
> >>
> >
> > The only way an ANS is worth anything is if it's fully loaded, or
> at least has all or most of the drive trays and other "unobtanium"
> parts included.
> >
> > Even then, they're old, slow and outdated. A $300 desktop PC
> bought from Tiger Direct (with gigabit ethernet) will drastically
> outperform an ANS.
> >
> > An ANS is really only of interest to the diehard Apple collector.
> >
> >
>
>
> >
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