Re: Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread jim stephens
On 12/5/2016 6:49 PM, Tothwolf wrote: I would also just like to know that the machine didn't end up scrapped. You might look up John Keys in the Houston area for other collectors around there. He may still listen on the list. Not sure if he is active, but he had a lot of connections there.

Re: Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread Tothwolf
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

Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread Ian Finder
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-

Re: Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread Tothwolf
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Ian Finder wrote: They sold 10,000 Apple TVs. That's a lot. You lost track of one ten years ago, and have given no real methodology for discerning it from any other- the number out there with OS 7.6 or 8mb of ram will be significant. Perhaps you should go door-to-door,

Re: Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread Ian Finder
They sold 10,000 Apple TVs. That's a lot. You lost track of one ten years ago, and have given no real methodology for discerning it from any other- the number out there with OS 7.6 or 8mb of ram will be significant. Perhaps you should go door-to-door, or hang flyers. It would probably yield

Searching for a lost Macintosh TV (Texas)

2016-12-05 Thread Tothwolf
I'm not really active in any of the classic computing communities apart from classiccmp, so I would appreciate it if others could pass this message around and see if this computer ended up in the hands of a fellow collector. A good friend of mine who lived in Spring, TX (north of Houston)