On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
Props for for having a good sense of humor. It made me laugh.
Seriously though I hate to say it but your quest feels pretty damn
futile.
I wish you luck either way, and would offer you my MacTV but it is long
gone.
If you can provide names of unique files or something that was on the
drive- identifiable but not sensitive- it might help you. Like I said,
there's nothing to key off of in your original post.
I've hunted far rarer specific systems- smbx machines and the like that
went missing from universities with good inventory control only one or
two years ago- and had zero luck.
Also do try Low End Mac and 68kmla, this is more relevant to those
audiences.
I'm not really looking to find a MacTV for myself, I have other Macs in
storage which are much more useful machines. Its a novel machine, sure,
but just not terribly useful.
I do have very detailed information of what was on the computer (I have
that full system backup from May 24, 1998), but I do not want to post any
of that publicly.
Given how few Macintosh TVs still exist, with the timeframe I mentioned in
my initial post (I was told late 2010), if a MacTV sold in that part of
Texas to a collector, the chance it might be that very computer is
certainly greater than zero. The odds are certainly much better than they
would be for a much more common Mac or random PC.
Of course even if it did turn up, the hard drive or files might be long
gone. If I didn't at least post something about it though, the chance it
might turn up with an intact hard drive would be zero ;)
