Anyone have an idee if a Mac desktop from the mid 80's is worth anything?

[sprinkleeninow]

[canetoad]

1. Try here

The Vintage Mac Museum

How Much Is My Old Mac Worth?

https://vintagemacmuseum.com/how-much-is-my-old-mac-worth/

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I somehow doubt that there is any value in them apart from curiosity. Not even heavy enough to make a good anchor.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. Appreciated. Haven't started to even look as yet.

My neigbor buddy does IT jobs for me, and one day getting the overhead door to resume operation he noticed a Mac computer box. We didn't follow thru that day.

It's like an auto I guess. The actual parts are in totality costing more than the vehicle itself?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. If it's in very good condition, some oddball collector will want it.

Check eBay for prices, but only ones labelled ***LIKE NEW*** or ***MINT CONDITION*** will fetch good auction prices. Or label it "not working -- for parts only" and sell if for a fraction of the shipping costs.

ETA: see the above response, posted while I was still typing.

[sprinkleeninow]

4. Thank you for the reply.

[BlueTexasMan]

5. Legacy software

I don't know much about Macs, but I've heard that some of the older ones have software that is permanent and doesn't have to be leased every year. Good for some tasks depending what's installed on it. I think you could install some version of Linux on it, like Ubuntu. It's not hard or expensive to do that and it's relatively user friendly.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. I have a Compaq desktop, circa 1999, that has a boo-boo since around 2000.

My IT buddy makes faces when I say I'd like to get it running. It cost $2500 plus back then. What a waste of money.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. You'll have a hard time finding someone to whom it's worth something ...

There's maybe collectors around but you'd better live in a BIG city if you expect to actually make a sale.

MHO, hope I'm wrong (if you actually need the money at all).

[sprinkleeninow]

8. One never knows. Worth looking into. I'll take any amount of $$ for what the market will bring.

I'm not counting on anything definitive.

[applegrove]

9. Go to facebook buy and sell, kijiji and craig's list and see how much they

are selling for nationally.

[sprinkleeninow]

10. I'll have buddy boy check these out. He loves tackling this stuff.

He helps me with an issue:
"Beep, beep, boop, boop. Done." I'm tech challenged. I know only enuff to get by and be dangerous! 😄

[applegrove]

11. I wish i had done research when I sold a phone. It sold really fast and i had

multiple offers. I should have doubled the price but it was my first sale so I did not pick up the cues that it was underpriced.

[sprinkleeninow]

13. As in selling real estate or anything. You can always come down, but never go back up. 😁

[Rollo]

12. Yes. As a door stop.

[sprinkleeninow]

14. It may not even be in there. We moved in '16 so the box may simply have been used for other items.

[luv2fly]

15. Likely not

Search eBay for similar items to get some sense of what they are going for. I tried to sell 4 old Mac's last summer and only asked 350 for all four and only got interest from one person who was creepy and I opted to discontinue negotiations with him.

[Worried2020]

16. Couple of Questions - Does it still work?

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Do you know the specs - OS version, how much memory, Hard Drive size and the like?

I'm not a Mac person, don't know much about them, but still have my first PC (still working!) an IBM PS2 came with Dos 6.0 and I upgraded to Windows 3.0, then 3.1 - 20 meg HD and i meg ram, upgraded from 54k.

I LUV the old stuff

Gotta be a wizard now to play with this new stuff.

I ain't no wizard



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