XYMer's Home away from Home

Given to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry by Apple
as a gift, the unit has the serial number F4200NUM0001.
There saying it's gonna go for under $2000. i think NOT
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ ... auctioned/
Also a bunch of Star Trek stuff is going on the block

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid".

haha. $800-$1200. They have no idea. Kind of like Captain Picard's Ressikan Flute that Christie's estimated at $300, and sold for $48,000. Even I would have paid up to $1000 for that flute.

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Things are only impossible until they're not - Jean Luc Picard
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools - Napoleon

Gene Roddenberry's Mac Plus with serial #1 is at the intersection of two avid fan bases. I suspect rtmac and sarahbau will prove correct in their analyses of the discrepancy between the estimated selling price and actual selling price of this item.

I'll add my own: these guys are utterly clueless imbeciles who'd make Finnish timber look clever if they actually think it'll go for just $2K. Wow. No, I mean WOW! I need a cinder block to beat my head against to bleed away any possibility of infection by this level of stupid. Drowned turkeys have greater acumen than this, assuming the auction house was serious and didn't accidentally lop off a few digits. Stabbing myself in the eye with a fork couldn't distract me from the spectacle of this level of dimwittedness. Yea, verily, it shall sell for more than $2000.

- Anonymous

that was a great diatribe

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid".

Is it not "estimated" so low just to hype it , get tons of dreaming bidders in on it, and jack the price up?

Just as the Leopard pig shoveler does. More importantly, did Anonymous just call me dumb behind all that aluminum?

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Escaping Special Character

Naw, Finnish Timber is likely some of the most intelligent Timber on Earth, I think Anon was just comparing them to the brightest Bump on a Log!

Thanks for the attention needed it

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I think my dad still has our serial number 60 something (sixty-something) Mac 128K machine in his storage unit. But his only claim to fame was his awesome graphic design firm (one of his employees designed the Capri Sun drink-in-a-bag packaging and artwork back in the late 1970s, and another of his employees’ claim to fame was having designed all the “high art” rock concert posters for the Fillmore back in the late 1960s). Yeah, surely you all know him. Make an offer for a couple grand on his 128K!!!

-he who stacks pork

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Would you take 2000 (pennies)? Actually, I'm not even sure I'd want to spend that much.

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Things are only impossible until they're not - Jean Luc Picard
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools - Napoleon

If a really silly prop I built for Conan O'Brien can sell for $7 Grand,
my guess is that Gene Roddenberry's Mac will sell in the neighborhood
of $6 grand.
Any other guesses ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fillmore

Either of those?

Doesn't mean his old Mac is valuable (yet, you never know), but that's pretty interesting. Must have been one awesome graphic design firm. And I'll certainly take a poster.

Norman Orr

-he who stacks pork

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Powerbook 180, System 7.1, 100MB HD, 8MB
Surly 1x1, 9:zero:7 Whiteout, Chinese 29er, Salsa Juan Solo, Gary Fisher Rig, Surly Instigator, Surly Troll, Ahrens Slalom, Frankendale Cannonstein 650b
I enjoy picnics on the beach with hot and crazy women

Here is a followup on exactly what mac it is
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ ... 128k_plus/
the auction is in a week or so

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid".

So, whatever was the outcome of this?

-he who stacks pork

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Powerbook 180, System 7.1, 100MB HD, 8MB
Surly 1x1, 9:zero:7 Whiteout, Chinese 29er, Salsa Juan Solo, Gary Fisher Rig, Surly Instigator, Surly Troll, Ahrens Slalom, Frankendale Cannonstein 650b
I enjoy picnics on the beach with hot and crazy women

Still hasn't happened yet.

Hmm… I was pretty sure that 2009 was last year, but then again I have been pretty busy with lots of other things.

-he who stacks pork

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Powerbook 180, System 7.1, 100MB HD, 8MB
Surly 1x1, 9:zero:7 Whiteout, Chinese 29er, Salsa Juan Solo, Gary Fisher Rig, Surly Instigator, Surly Troll, Ahrens Slalom, Frankendale Cannonstein 650b
I enjoy picnics on the beach with hot and crazy women

Time flies! And how? With a stopwatch. Some of the big ones are pretty quick, but Drosophila seems kinda poky. The trick is timing flies going the right direction. Right when you least expect it, it'll be like one of 'em is going backwards. Tricky little buggers.

- Anonymous

Holy crap, it's 2010? Why didn't anybody tell me?!

We thought that if we waited until 2011, you could plausibly convince yourself that 2010 was really just a bad dream.

- Anonymous

What happens to binaries in 101010?

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Found out what happened. It went for $8,260.

Jeebus, some people are stupid.

2010 ??? [mind explodes]

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I will not be 1984...

They get sucked into the mega-black hole that, by that point, has consumed the Milky Way.

Or is that 1010101010?

you could say it's 356 or 0x164. what happens at 10:10:10 on 10/10/10?