Re: [NTLK] [OT] Mac collections (was something to trade)

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 21:17:15 PDT


on 10/09/02 23:58, Grant [Smuggle] Hutchinson at grant_at_splorp.com wrote:

> In a previous message, David Caolo typed vigorously:
>
>> My wife referrs to my basement collection of Macs (and various parts)
>> as "The Mac Museum," as in "When is the Mac Museum going to close?"
>> Some people just don't understand. I might need that someday! You
>> never know when I'll need that.
>
> Sigh. If only my basement (and garage, and off-site storage, and...)
> collection was simply Macs and Newtons... I mustn't forget about the
> GridPads and the Sun workstations, the SGI Iris 4D and the Lisas, the
> NeXTstations and all the MagicCap handhelds...

Lisas? Did I read that well, or is this a typo? These are very hard to come
by these days. I was checking the vintage section of eBay this week and
there was one going on for $3600!!!

-Laurent.

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