Nice old school Macintosh & PC Pickup. Lot's of monitors to come but mostly the all in one apple imacs. To contact me by email: weeeben@optusnet.com.au Keep scrapping & Have fun!
Nice video, Ben. Good to see some old-school computers being rescued - hopefully some can be brought back to life sometime. Sorry to hear about tour last chook.
The clear Apple Displays you brought back are just displays, no computer components used in them. They were used with the Mac Pro G3 towers. Now all the colored ones in bubble wrap were iMac G3s. The lampshade style iMacs were iMac G4s and were made from like 2002 to 2004 I believe. Also, the button below the trackball on the Apple laptop was probably the click button for the mouse.
This is an insane pickup, Ben. If I lived in Australia, I would be throwing money at you for some of this stuff. The Amigas, those Power Computing machines, the Macintosh Portable, those see-through Apple CRTs, and the LC 575 in particular. So many gems in here. Don't sleep on those Power Computing machines, they are Macintosh clones and can go for a lot of cash. The LC 575 doesn't look very special, but just the motherboards themselves go for $100s because they swap directly into Color Classics, giving them a 68040 CPU.
Super cool!! I look forward to your videos, i'm glad there was one today. When I was in high school , we had a commodore 64 and then later a macintosh 512, I know those machines cost a fortune back then.
It's amazing the stuff people hold on to and more so because they have a way of finding you Ben. And, in my opinion , no one deserves to have this find more than you do. Thank you for sharing these vintage computers with us. Can't wait to see the return trip to get the rest. You look exhausted Ben. Get plenty of rest and learn to pace yourself.
hI ben from across the ditch!!! love watching your videos, I hope you you kept all the old macs or auctioned them off , keep scrapping & have fun kia kaha from NZ
Wow. I wish I could come over from NZ...you've got a good few things I'd be bringing home, especially one of the portrait displays. I started my career using those!
I mean there's tons of value there with replacement parts and scrap. The potable cleaned up and working is worth a pretty penny. Amazing that stuff was all in one spot!
WOW that was some pick up. Don't worry about the amo, they were just shot gun cartridges, back in the day when they used brass too! You need to get back to that skip😀 Sorry about your chook! Great video Ben; must admit I was having a cheeky giggle after the 10th time you were taking about the size 8f the floopy😜
I just finished selling a ton of old Mac IIe’s and IIgs computers from an ewaste pickup I did. They had great value. Sold several of the Mac monitors as well
A good haul indeed and that small computer with the round base is an iMac G4 and it is collectable and there are videos on YT., which show them being converted with modern parts and in amongst the stuff which you still have to collect is either a G5 or a Mac pro, the front of that computer was facing the wall so I could not be sure of the model.
Hi Ben, the Box with the Cromemco board inside is an S-100 computer chassis. The whole thing will probably fetch a few hundred on eBay, even empty. Worst case the backplane alone will go for $100+ alone. The connectors by itself are $10 a pop.
The commodore 1000 you got expanion goes on the side where the pcb is, and the cable is a scart connector to commodore monitor. Extern floppy is for Amiga, I think. Switcher for interlace and expansion.
might look into bring some soft sided semi rigid bags or dividers to put more of the valuable stuff like keyboards etc in the front seat without damaging them , look for some travel luggage those might work justas well
Keeping something just because you spent money on it, though, is usually a bad idea for a company. These would almost certainly all have been owned by businesses or schools, who would have amortised the costs of the capital expenditure over ~5 years, and the assets are then literally worthless to them. They would also not get value in one of their employees using company time (salary time) to try to sell the assets individually for the best possible return price - it would still cost more to pay the employee than they'd recoup. Even sending them off for bulk auction can cost more than it brings in. But yeah - to us, it looks absolutely crazy. I've seen piles of stuff in skips that 10-15 years earlier had represented tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital expenditure.
I am so happy they didn't just take it all to the dump. But it seems they knew what they had there. Sad to hear about your chickens. But they don't live too long do they. Their shed cleaned up nice :) I liked the long video.
Hi Ben, great vid once again. A lovely haul! I’ve got a mint condition boxed C64 complete with tape deck, joystick, 50+ games, all leads and power pack…… Is it worth anything these days?
Holy cow, did you go back in time somehow!? Man oh man - that's got to be thousands of dollars worth of material there. There's some serious potential there.
Televideo like yours seem to sell in the dozens in the US for around $250.00 US. The vertical Macintosh was very popular in the publishing industry as the whole page could be displayed as it wood be presented for printing. Quite rare
Ben some of those iMac all in one screens have solid copper heatsinks on both sides of the motherboard I've done a few over the years but i cannot remember the exact models that has it...
Oh my god be gentle with that lot! Some lovely pieces in there for eBay. Clenching my teeth with those clear ADC monitors in the back of the van 😬 you should at least carry some soft blankets when picking up potentially valuable and rare retro gear
