1984 Apple MacIntosh

[Lucky]

Today, my wife went by a local estate sale to pick up something for me. In addition to the item I needed, she saw (and purchased) a 1984 Apple MacIntosh computer. That's the first year of the Mac. As you may remember, there was the epic "1984" commercial, then two days later the product was released.

It's in amazing condition, not yellowed with age. Comes complete with CPU/monitor, keyboard, primitive mouse, extra floppy reader, and an Apple printer.

It fires up and seems to work, but we haven't played around with it yet.

I'm guessing that there are people out there who collect this sort of thing. We're not that sort of collector, so we'll probably be trying to sell it. There have been a few selling on ebay for pretty high prices, even without all the peripherals.

Anyone know anything about these things? It seems like quite a coincidence, here only a couple of weeks after Steve Jobs passes away.

[Lucky]

Today, my wife went by a local estate sale to pick up something for me. In addition to the item I needed, she saw (and purchased) a 1984 Apple MacIntosh computer. That's the first year of the Mac. As you may remember, there was the epic "1984" commercial, then two days later the product was released.

It's in amazing condition, not yellowed with age. Comes complete with CPU/monitor, keyboard, primitive mouse, extra floppy reader, and an Apple printer.

It fires up and seems to work, but we haven't played around with it yet.

I'm guessing that there are people out there who collect this sort of thing. We're not that sort of collector, so we'll probably be trying to sell it. There have been a few selling on ebay for pretty high prices, even without all the peripherals.

Anyone know anything about these things? It seems like quite a coincidence, here only a couple of weeks after Steve Jobs passes away.

Just to add closure to a thread that nobody seemed particularly interested in, I finally got the Mac listed on ebay late Sunday evening. Monday morning, it sold on a "Buy It Now" for 140 times what we paid for it, a decent return on our time and money. It was bought by a guy in New York who is actually pretty well known up there...won an Oscar and a number of Clio awards, along with tons of other awards in the advertising industry.

So, after tons of research, I'm now the resident expert in Magnolia on the original MacIntosh series. I'll probably never find another one, but I'll know what to do if one comes along.

[Teenwolf]

That's really cool. I'm sure that there would be a lot of practical use for them in period films and that sort of thing.

[Moonlight J]

That was my first classroom computer as a teacher

[SeaDogStat]

Here ya go, Lucky...