Vintage Mac blowout! Performa, PowerMac, clamshell ibook and more! BARGAINS!

Hello, I'm getting shut of my vintage Mac gear, it's taking up too much room now and my adoring love for it all is becoming outweighed by a desire to be able to work in my study without tripping over hordes of old computers... Good prices to get quick sales!

So, ignore crappy quality of iphone pictures and bask in the retro Mac goodiness. Shipping prices are UK only.

First of all, my favourite, Apple Mac Performa 630, with 14" monitor:

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A really cute little computer, very very clean, close to mint, slight signs of use on keyboard. As you can see, boxed with polys. Has a fresh install of OS8.1 (a lovely system!), 68040 processor, 36MB RAM, 400MB hard-drive. There's a TV tuner card built in and it comes with a black Apple remote! So, plug in your ariel and watch telly. Doubt it's digital ready though... Anyway, I used this for playing old school Mac games, it's a real treat to use. (*cough* google Macintosh Garden for tonnes of 68K "abandonware"...*cough*) Will handily run ancient versions of photoshop and word etc. I installed an ethernet card so you can hook it into your network and surf broadband! I had it sharing files with Windows XP and OSX too. Lovely. Keyboard and mouse included.

Price for this: Base Unit - £20 shipped, Monitor £22 shipped.

Next...

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PowerMac 7600. Fitted with a 333Mhz G3 cpu card, has 528MB RAM installed, running OS 9.2.2. A vintage powerhouse! That's a 17" monitor. The pint glass is for scale, it's a beast! Has a 12GB HDD installed plus a 6GB 2nd HDD, plus a photoshop scratch disk partition off of one of the drives of 2GB total.Runs Photoshop pretty well, although it did fall over when I tried to run unsharp mask filter on a 400MB Hasselblad digital file I networked over. It deals with sensible files very nicely! The monitor works well, although it takes a few minutes to warm up and may look a little fuzzy at first. Keyboard and mouse included.

Price: Base Unit - £20 shipped, Monitor £25 shipped.

Next:

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Another PowerMac, this ones a 7200! This one is pretty much stock, 90Mhz processor, 96MB RAM (I think). I have another G3 card that came with this but pulled it when I pulled all the RAM out of it to stuff in the 7600, you need to have as much RAM on the g3 card as you do in the base unit and I ran out! Pretty nice machine, 4GB drive I think, installed with 9.1 or 9.2.2.

Price £15 shipped

Next:

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iBook G3, original clamshell version! This has a 300Mhz processor, maxed out RAM at 512MB, 3GB HDD and has OSX 10.3 installed. Also, a brand new battery that holds hours of charge plus an Airport card for wireless net. Under OSX the airport can connect to WEP or WPA networks, under OS9 just WEP. A lovely computer, beautiful. Very clean, no marks or damage at all. Comes with original yoyo charger! Has a lovely keyboard, it's a pleasure to use for typing long Word documents, much nicer than my new Macbook Pro keyboard!

Price: £100 shipped. This is a quality laptop that still runs internet and office productivity stuff nicely, and a future collectors item, hence the price.

Next:
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Retail copy of OS8.5, with OS8.6 update CD! Complete and mint, looks like it came off the shelf yesterday. These are getting hard to come by.

Price: £30 shipped

Next, bits and pieces:
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G3 card at 400Mhz for PowerMac 7200. No RAM on board.

Price: £10 shipped

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16MB RAM, 168 pin.

Price £3 shipped

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Wacom A5 graphics tablet (Artpad 2), SCSI 2GB external drive, SCSI CD-RW.

Price: Tablet £7 shipped, HDD ****SOLD**** , CD-RW ****SOLD****

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Magneto-Optical drive plus 15 MO disks. The drive itself, I buggered. Not sure what I did, it was working then it died and won't come back to life. Odd. I have a vague idea it's something to do with SCSI, I didn't really understand how to hook it all up... Whoops. Maybe fixable? Maybe the disks are useful to you?

Price: £10 the lot shipped.

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Gravis flight style ADB joystick. A monster and great for Mac flight-sims! Boxed and looks mint, clearly barely used.

Price: £15 shipped.

That's that for now. Basically I'm just looking to cover shipping, I've priced according to roughly what I think it'll cost to post plus a bit for time spent wrapping and lugging plus a bit extra for a few beers to numb the pain of parting with them... It's a nice little horde and ultimately I'll be glad to see them go to good homes.

Now, if someone wanted to drive down to me (Medway in Kent) and pick this up as a joblot (ibook excluded) to save me the hassle of posting it then I'd be very open to discuss that and load the lot into your car for you (ibook excluded!) for, say £30 for a drink! Twist my arm and I'll probably say £20... :-(

Payment by paypal gift.


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Interested in the SCSI 2GB external drive and SCSI CD-RW, shipping would be to Portugal. PM'me with total please.
Also looking for a Keyboard and mouse (ADB bus type) for my Mac IIfx.

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Originally Posted by JLPedro

Interested in the SCSI 2GB external drive and SCSI CD-RW, shipping would be to Portugal. PM'me with total please.
Also looking for a Keyboard and mouse (ADB bus type) for my Mac IIfx.

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Hello. I should have been clearer, at the moment this is all UK only. I'll let it stand for a week and then open the floor for international interest (at least, for the smaller items). So, consider your interest noted and if this isn't taken within the UK by next Wednesday lunchtime then we can figure out shipping. I should be able to help with a keyboard and mouse too.

Thanks, and sorry for confusion.
S

Unlucky JLPedro. Sorry to pounce here;

Hi Steve,
Shipping for the CDRW by what method & what is the Spec on this unit?
Also, does it include it's SCSI cable to hook up to the Controller?

If all is good here, I'll have her. :thumbsup:

Cheers,

Kin

Ah, sorry JLPedro, I feel guilty now...

Kin, it is Traxdata CD-RW, 2x Write, 2x Erase, 6x Read (taken from sticker on bottom).

The product code is UK CDEW2260 MAC, if that helps via Google.

It does indeed have a SCSI cable.

I've just hefted it, weighs about a kilo so I'll probably go RM standard parcels.

S

2x write. :dry: ....

Sod it, providing it's fully functional, post it. PM sent m8.

Kin

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Originally Posted by Kin Hell

2x write. :dry: ....

Sod it, providing it's fully functional, post it. PM sent m8.

Kin

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It was fully functional a couple of months ago. Hmm, it's actually the only thing I haven't tested this week before listing, let me just make sure first...

S

Im interested in the external 2GB drive :)

Sending PM

I'm interested in the MacOS8 package...

My dad has a black performa 5400 that I was looking to upgrade for him to get it networked up with his PC. I'm assuming that it will be possible to upgrade from 7 to 8 without losing files etc?

Also, I'm hoping that networking with WinXP will be relatively straightforward too?

Thanks!

AndyC

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Originally Posted by Tajmaster

Im interested in the external 2GB drive :)

Sending PM

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Replied, awaiting payment via paypal.

S

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I'm interested in the MacOS8 package...

My dad has a black performa 5400 that I was looking to upgrade for him to get it networked up with his PC. I'm assuming that it will be possible to upgrade from 7 to 8 without losing files etc?

Also, I'm hoping that networking with WinXP will be relatively straightforward too?

Thanks!

AndyC

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Hello Andy.

Well, as far as I'm aware you should be able to update and not lose files. I think you can set the install to preserve your old system folder, then when your up and running with OS8 drag and drop the files over from old to new system folder. But don't quote me on that, ask Google first.

Networking to XP isn't hard, I can't remember exactly how to do it but it's just a matter of a few options in a couple of control panels. I found a nice and easy guide somewhere, can't find it now. How about this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2973?viewlocale=en_US

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Payment sent to Steve :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Tajmaster

Payment sent to Steve :thumbsup:

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Received. Will get it in the post before the weekend.

cheers!
S

interested in 16MB RAM, 168 pin memory, but I might with draw it as got to check a few things firts

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Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

interested in 16MB RAM, 168 pin memory, but I might with draw it as got to check a few things firts

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Noted. Don't dilly dally though.

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S

interest withdraw , good luck with the sale of the rest od the stuff

If the sale goes international I would like to express interest in the G3 ibook. If you do start sending overseas I'm from Greece so just let me know of the shipping price.

Interested in the Apple Mac Performa 630 - what sort of monitor does it use? I'd prefer not to buy another if that's at all possible.

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Originally Posted by Muzer

Interested in the Apple Mac Performa 630 - what sort of monitor does it use? I'd prefer not to buy another if that's at all possible.

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Macs use a DB-15 connector for their monitors, so you'll need a Mac monitor, or a converter. Still, you can get Mac-VGA adapters fairly cheap, maybe £5-£10.

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Originally Posted by cyberknight

If the sale goes international I would like to express interest in the G3 ibook. If you do start sending overseas I'm from Greece so just let me know of the shipping price.

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Hi. Sorry to not reply sooner, I caught a vomiting bug off my son and have been KO'd since Friday...

Anyhoo, interest noted. If no one in uk claims by Wednesday lunchtime then we shall go international! I'll look at shipping in the meantime.

Ta
Steve

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Originally Posted by Muzer

Interested in the Apple Mac Performa 630 - what sort of monitor does it use? I'd prefer not to buy another if that's at all possible.

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Hello. Apologies for delay, as above.

Yeah as Andy says it's a proprietry fitment, so either need a mac monitor or an adapter is they're sourceable. I'd encourage you to take the 630 and the monitor together though, it's only a small display really but it goes well with the computer, both very clean, nice and crisp too.

Let me know what you think.

S

HI there...

I'm withdrawing interest in MacOS8 - I spoke to my dad and he's not fussed any more...

Cheers,
AndyC

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Originally Posted by cyberknight

If the sale goes international I would like to express interest in the G3 ibook. If you do start sending overseas I'm from Greece so just let me know of the shipping price.

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Hi. Sorry to not reply sooner, I caught a vomiting bug off my son and have been KO'd since Friday...

Anyhoo, interest noted. If no one in uk claims by Wednesday lunchtime then we shall go international! I'll look at shipping in the meantime.

Ta
Steve

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Interested in the Apple Mac Performa 630 - what sort of monitor does it use? I'd prefer not to buy another if that's at all possible.

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Hello. Apologies for delay, as above.

Yeah as Andy says it's a proprietry fitment, so either need a mac monitor or an adapter is they're sourceable. I'd encourage you to take the 630 and the monitor together though, it's only a small display really but it goes well with the computer, both very clean, nice and crisp too.

Let me know what you think.

S

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Hmm... not really sure I have enough room for an additional monitor - at least, not for the time being.

How good are these adapters in the way of image quality? How desperate are you to get rid of the monitor?

If sale for the clamshell laptop is international now I'm really interested. If you can post the shipping price I would really appreciate it :).

Is the Sonnet and/or any beige Mac's still for sale? :unsure:

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Originally Posted by Muzer

Hmm... not really sure I have enough room for an additional monitor - at least, not for the time being.

How good are these adapters in the way of image quality? How desperate are you to get rid of the monitor?

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Hello. I can't vouch for the quality of any adapter you may get hold of, I've never used one. I'm desperate to get rid of the lot of it! But it's up to you whether you take the monitor!

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If sale for the clamshell laptop is international now I'm really interested. If you can post the shipping price I would really appreciate it :).

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Hi. Yes, now international. So, it's yours if you want it. Just had a quick look on Parcelforce, shipping to Greece looking around the £50 - £60 mark. Ouch. I'll check out a couple of other options this evening and come back to you, try and get it as cheap as possible for you.

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Is the Sonnet and/or any beige Mac's still for sale? :unsure:

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Hello. Yes, Sonnet card and the PowerMacs are definitely available. The Performa 630 has interest on it at the moment but no confirmed sale as yet so may well be up for grabs too eventually.

You're welcome to come and take the lot off me for £20 :D I want my study back!

S

Ok well if the sale drops consider it sold. Il certainly take that Sonnet off you though. :)

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Originally Posted by tokyoracer

Ok well if the sale drops consider it sold. Il certainly take that Sonnet off you though. :)

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No probs. I'll hold off until I hear from Muzer whether he wants to take the 630 for a couple of days. If he doesn't, I'll pop the Sonnet card in the 630 box and not charge you any extra for it seeing as I was only looking to cover shipping anyway. If you take the 630 are you looking for the monitor as well?

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If you take the 630 are you looking for the monitor as well?

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That's a nice looking monitor but I need to save the pennies. Sorry. :(

Dissapointed I didn't see this thread sooner as I would have killed for that G3 power'd PowerMac. Someone is VERY lucky. :thumbsup:

I absolutely want it. If you can find a cheaper shipping option I would be glad, if not ... oh well - I still want it. I'll wait on your update to procceed.

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If you take the 630 are you looking for the monitor as well?

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That's a nice looking monitor but I need to save the pennies. Sorry. :(

Dissapointed I didn't see this thread sooner as I would have killed for that G3 power'd PowerMac. Someone is VERY lucky. :thumbsup:

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Hello. The powermac 7600 with g3 card is still available, as is the 7200. No-ones shown any interest in those yet. They're yours if you want em!

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Originally Posted by cyberknight

I absolutely want it. If you can find a cheaper shipping option I would be glad, if not ... oh well - I still want it. I'll wait on your update to procceed.

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I have found an alternative that is about 30 quid to Greece, I need to check the terms properly first to make sure it's what we need. I'll figure it out and pm you later, having a bonfire at the moment and juggling that with surfing on my iPhone is tricky...

S

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Hello. The powermac 7600 with g3 card is still available, as is the 7200. No-ones shown any interest in those yet. They're yours if you want em!

S

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:wooha: PM SEND WITH HASTE!

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Hello. The powermac 7600 with g3 card is still available, as is the 7200. No-ones shown any interest in those yet. They're yours if you want em!

S

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:wooha: PM SEND WITH HASTE!

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Replied re the PowerMac 7600 and the Sonnet card. Awaiting payment.

Also, interest in 630 noted, you're 2nd in line for that one.

S

I'll buy the 630 then - sorry guys who wanted it, but I've never had a Mac (classic or modern) before and want to see what the old ones were like :)

I won't buy the monitor, as I don't have the space or the money, so I'll source a VGA adaptor from the other bay.

PM sent with address.

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Originally Posted by Muzer

I'll buy the 630 then - sorry guys who wanted it, but I've never had a Mac (classic or modern) before and want to see what the old ones were like :)

I won't buy the monitor, as I don't have the space or the money, so I'll source a VGA adaptor from the other bay.

PM sent with address.

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Replied, awaiting payment.

The 630 is a really nice little computer and Mac OS is just a joy to use. You won't be sorry you've bought it, I'm sure!

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The 630 is a really nice little computer and Mac OS is just a joy to use. You won't be sorry you've bought it, I'm sure!

S

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Totally agree, I have a 630 (sadly not as nice as Steve's), it's one of the best 68k Apple's around. :)

Payment recvd from Muzer for the 630, will get out with a courier in the next day or two.

S

PM with postal info and payment send.

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Originally Posted by cyberknight

PM with postal info and payment send.

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Payment received, cheers!

External SCSI HDD recieved today!! Many thanks Steve, feedback will be left in a moment :)

Hey Steve.

Your External CDRW arrived 2 days ago. Having only just got to try her, I have now made the payment as per our earlier PM. - She's alive. :)

Best Wishes & Many Thanks,

Charlie

PS. Feedback left too. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Tajmaster

External SCSI HDD recieved today!! Many thanks Steve, feedback will be left in a moment :)

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Excellent, glad you're happy! Cheers!

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Hey Steve.

Your External CDRW arrived 2 days ago. Having only just got to try her, I have now made the payment as per our earlier PM. - She's alive. :)

Best Wishes & Many Thanks,

Charlie

PS. Feedback left too. :thumbsup:

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Nice one, very pleased that you got her working, I must have had brain fade or something. Cheers bro!

S

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External SCSI HDD recieved today!! Many thanks Steve, feedback will be left in a moment :)

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Excellent, glad you're happy! Cheers!

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Hey Steve.

Your External CDRW arrived 2 days ago. Having only just got to try her, I have now made the payment as per our earlier PM. - She's alive. :)

Best Wishes & Many Thanks,

Charlie

PS. Feedback left too. :thumbsup:

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Nice one, very pleased that you got her working, I must have had brain fade or something. Cheers bro!

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Dont forget to leave us feedback too mate :thumbsup:

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Dont forget to leave us feedback too mate :thumbsup:

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Yup, I'm on it, been meaning too all day but keep getting distracted, it's one of those "do it in a minute" jobs that I always then forget to do... My bad.

Will do it now!

S

Right, this is getting a little unwieldly now, so I'll recap what's gone and what's left.

SCSI HDD - sold
SCSI CDRW - sold
Performa 630 base unit - sold, being picked up by courier today
Clamshell iBook - sold, international courier picking up Monday
PowerMac 7600 - provisionally sold to TokyoRacer, awaiting payment
Sonnet 7200 card - as above

What remains:
PowerMac 7200 - £15 shipped
Colorsync monitor 17 inches - £25 shipped
Colorsync monitor 14 inches - £22 shipped
Mac OS 8.5 with 8.6 update - £30 shipped
Wacom tablet - £7 shipped (I actually have 3 of these!)
MO drive and disks - £10 shipped
ADB joystick - £15 shipped

The smaller stuff can obviously be shipped internationally, I'll have to price again as the above quotes are for UK only.

S

Recived the 7600 and bits, fantastic service thanks! :D

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Originally Posted by tokyoracer

Recived the 7600 and bits, fantastic service thanks! :D

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No probs mate, glad you're happy :D

Apple just arrived today ! Computer is in excellent shape and package was great. Thank you mate !

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Apple just arrived today ! Computer is in excellent shape and package was great. Thank you mate !

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Fantastic. Pleasure doing business with you John!

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OK, only have a few bits left now, shifted a couple of items on t'other bay.

Price drops to absolute bare minimum, just covering postage and packing, no change for beer money!

Apple Colorsync monitor 17 inches - £18 shipped
Apple multiscan monitor 14 inches - £14 shipped
Wacom ADB tablet x 2 - £6 shipped for the pair (only one stylus though, nibs gone on the other)

The 14 inch monitor is in A1 condition, nary a sign of use on her shell and comes in original box with polys.

The 17 inch is a touch tempremental, taking a minute or so to warm up but displays crisp thereafter.

The tablets are cool too, one is really clean and looks new, other shows normal (for something you slide your fist around on) signs of use.

Please, some mac-head take these off my hands, they're in my way and too good to bin! :-(

S

Hi - I've finally got around to buying a monitor adaptor (I took my time!), set it up, and now it's working fine. Leaving positive feedback.

Did you ever send out that remote control? I don't believe I ever recieved it...

If you dont sell the colorsync 17" monitor, maybe we can come to some arrangement regarding the front button door panel.

Cheers