I will never, ever, EVER top this score. Ever. Also, if the person we picked the Macs up from is out there, say hi!
The time: 2017. I'm in a group chat with some friends and mutuals, one of which who lives about 30 minutes away from me. Also in there is dosdude1. Yes, *that* dosdude1. I name drop him because without him none of this would have happened.
On a lark he was poking around Craigslist around our area (because California, probably home to many vintage Macs by his logic), and he found a goldmine of a listing: Literal pallets of Macs in Santa Barbara, needing to go like, now. Because I guess the people who had them were moving and that hardware was going to the shredder if someone didn't pick them up. dosdude1 was like "YOU GUYS NEED TO GO OVER THERE AND GET THIS RIGHT NOW!" and, well, he offered to pay for travel costs. With my friend and I having nothing to do, you bet we jumped in our cars and drove over there.
We get to the place and the person's saying people already came and got all the "good stuff" (PowerPC Macs and a few iMac G3s), but...man oh man there was still some solid gold that got passed up, because in the pile of remaining stuff there was TWO Quadra 700s (in great condition!) a couple of Mac Pluses (that I still have, though dosdude1 requested I hold them until he can find a way to get them, because shipping is tricky), and 4 Apple Extended Keyboards (3 AEKIIs, 1 OG AEK. And yes, I still have the OG. I love it to bits). There were also a few Quadra 610s in there, some IIsis, and a IIci. (And I still have most of them, though unfortunately I haven't had the time to get around to them and don't think I ever will. Been meaning to offload them locally...and fear not, the batteries in all of them have been disarmed.)
Also various vintage cables and things scattered throughout. All very nice things to have.
My friend still has one of the Quadra 700s. I ended up passing mine on to someone locally (funnily enough, a Netflix employee, since I'm not far from Los Gatos).
It was a really fun time. The biggest score of my lifetime (and a score in more ways than one, Santa Barbara is a *beautiful* place to see).
Hopefully y'all don't mind past stories here, but it's one I've been wanting to tell for a while. Can't remember if I ever talked about it anywhere else.
The time: 2017. I'm in a group chat with some friends and mutuals, one of which who lives about 30 minutes away from me. Also in there is dosdude1. Yes, *that* dosdude1. I name drop him because without him none of this would have happened.
On a lark he was poking around Craigslist around our area (because California, probably home to many vintage Macs by his logic), and he found a goldmine of a listing: Literal pallets of Macs in Santa Barbara, needing to go like, now. Because I guess the people who had them were moving and that hardware was going to the shredder if someone didn't pick them up. dosdude1 was like "YOU GUYS NEED TO GO OVER THERE AND GET THIS RIGHT NOW!" and, well, he offered to pay for travel costs. With my friend and I having nothing to do, you bet we jumped in our cars and drove over there.
We get to the place and the person's saying people already came and got all the "good stuff" (PowerPC Macs and a few iMac G3s), but...man oh man there was still some solid gold that got passed up, because in the pile of remaining stuff there was TWO Quadra 700s (in great condition!) a couple of Mac Pluses (that I still have, though dosdude1 requested I hold them until he can find a way to get them, because shipping is tricky), and 4 Apple Extended Keyboards (3 AEKIIs, 1 OG AEK. And yes, I still have the OG. I love it to bits). There were also a few Quadra 610s in there, some IIsis, and a IIci. (And I still have most of them, though unfortunately I haven't had the time to get around to them and don't think I ever will. Been meaning to offload them locally...and fear not, the batteries in all of them have been disarmed.)
Also various vintage cables and things scattered throughout. All very nice things to have.
My friend still has one of the Quadra 700s. I ended up passing mine on to someone locally (funnily enough, a Netflix employee, since I'm not far from Los Gatos).
It was a really fun time. The biggest score of my lifetime (and a score in more ways than one, Santa Barbara is a *beautiful* place to see).
Hopefully y'all don't mind past stories here, but it's one I've been wanting to tell for a while. Can't remember if I ever talked about it anywhere else.
