I know Apple computers are expensive, but this is ridiculous!

yeah,....I read that....still works too!

I've got a Macintosh Plus with 1MB of RAM and no hard drive sitting in the corner of my office, in the box, still works. I've got a box full of software including Microsoft Excel for Mac Version 1.0. Don't know that it'll fetch that kind of money, but I always wondered what it would bring in.

BackdoorHippie said:

I've got a Macintosh Plus with 1MB of RAM and no hard drive sitting in the corner of my office, in the box, still works. I've got a box full of software including Microsoft Excel for Mac Version 1.0. Don't know that it'll fetch that kind of money, but I always wondered what it would bring in.

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​Get it appraised....got to be worth something....is the MacPlus a 2nd generation Mac?

I don't know that I'd call it "second generation". I went to Drexel University, which was the first college in the US to require incoming freshmen to purchase personal computers. This was in 1983, the year after I enrolled. They selected the Apple Macintosh, which had yet to be released, and freshman got the first batch of 128K Macs, with a Drexel Logo emblazoned on it to prevent them from selling them off to buyers 4 months before they were available on the open market. The 128K was replaced by "The 512" and then the MacPlus came out after that. As a Computer Science major a lot of my work was being taylored for the Mac, so I wound up buying one in '86, my Junior year (which is year 4 out of 5 since Drexel had a mandatory co-op program that had me spending 18 months in industry). I want to say it was close to $2500 for the computer and an external floppy drive (this with the Drexel student discount of 15% off retail).

The wikipedia link is pretty thorough in explaining the timeline. The SE and Mac II came out after I graduated. They seem to be getting anywhere from $50-250 on eBay depending on features and extras. I'm thinking I might be able to get $150 if I waited long enough.

My first PC was a 386 Packard Bell. Running Windows 3.0. Damn I'm getting old. Plus we had the old 24 mbps dialup modem. I remember how long it would take to navigate a forum. It seemed like forever. We've got it made nowadays.

You mean 2.4 kilo bit per seconds (2400 bauds), not 24 and not mega.

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You mean 2.4 kilo bit per seconds (2400 bauds), not 24 and not mega.

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You're right Paul...forgot it's been so long ago.

Back in '91 I was the on call DBA and production support person for the system we were building. I had a green screen AT&T PC (rebranded Olivetti) and a 300 baud modem sitting in my office at home to do support calls on. God, I hated that job. I was thrilled when they upgraded me to a 2400 baud brick on the shelf. Back in high school I used modems where we physically put the handset onto a microphone/speaker assembly so our teletype input terminals communicated with the mainframe we bought time on for BASIC classes.