Like I said before :P, I am just going to store these two away, perhaps in 60 years they might be worth something, including 10 Mac Lisa's & XL's. Thanks for all your wonderful comments. Just a cool piece of equipment for my huge collection. I own around 900 different macs/Apple ]['s.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:14 AM, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:09 PM, leaknoil wrote: > > > The ans is an abomination. Crappy as a server and as an Apple. > > There is > > nothing at all good about it and could only ever have been made when > > Jobs wasn't around. It was junk. > > It may have been junk in your eyes, but ANSes were used to control > very large theme parks and domain name servers alike, both are > applications where failures are not an option. > > I agree ... that prospective seller is smoking something pretty > strong to believe he can trade a brand-new car for his 12+ year old > ANS, irrespective of its condition. > > > When Walt Disney Company sold-off all of theirs, they were going for > $400 for a brand new one and $100 for a used one. But the ANS was > then a reasonably current model. > > When Apple sent all its remaining ANS inventory to Sacto for > liquidation, they would not bring even $2, and that was $2 for a > brand-new one or $2 for a used one ... didn't matter which. > > I once had a "connection" with a liquidator in Silicon Valley, and I > bought his inventory of all the easily damaged parts, plus every tray > which had card/cable kits, plus all of his loose card/cable kits to > upgrade my empty trays. > > Plus all of his bases, as those are amongst the most easily damaged > parts on an ANS. > > Try to move an ANS with the wheel locks in the locked position, and > you will very likely damage the base, the wheel locks, the wheels, or > all of them. > > The ANS is perhaps Apple's best documented system. All the > documentation is easily available. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
