i tow home junk cars and dolly them to the scrap yard all the time if i had a pair of these machines, by the sounds of the ongoing discussion, i'd yank some of the more sought-after/valuable parts, and offer them on ebay or here. and i'd throw whats left into the back of a minivan or suv, to get a lil extra weight on the scale.
a win-win Cyrus Griffin wrote: > $1,500?? I agree that's just crazy. Maybe a Lisa or Macintosh 128K in > the box... but not the ANS. At this point they're old enough to be > outdated, but not old enough to be vintage collectors items. Sorry to > break it to > you... But have you not been listening to the other posters on this list? > From what everyone's said, sounds like you'd be lucky to get $300 for them. > > > > -Elliott > > > > On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Mac Book wrote: > >> I would have sold it for $1,500, but ill just keep this neat thing. >> >> But some day it might end up on ebay! or might trade for a nice >> riding lawn mower who knows :P >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:09 AM, leaknoil <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> You guys are wasting your breath. He obviously thinks its worth more >> then it is. Everytime you say it isn't worth that he just thinks >> it must >> be worth even more and you are trying to trick him out of it. >> >> 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. >> >> If you really must have one they aren't that uncommon. They show >> up on >> ebay from time to time. Just have to figure out how to get it to you. >> >> >> Gregg Eshelman wrote: >> > --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Mac Book <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > >> >> Thanks John for letting me know, Looked on >> >> everymac.com <http://everymac.com/>, The Network >> >> servers were $19,000 new, Will do some searching around on a >> >> good price. I personally will not sell them cheap. >> >> >> > >> > The only way an ANS is worth anything is if it's fully loaded, >> or at least has all or most of the drive trays and other >> "unobtanium" parts included. >> > >> > Even then, they're old, slow and outdated. A $300 desktop PC >> bought from Tiger Direct (with gigabit ethernet) will drastically >> outperform an ANS. >> > >> > An ANS is really only of interest to the diehard Apple collector. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
