Month: August 2021

Since some people asked, our estate sale is scheduled for September 9-12. The old Macs I’m selling include:

  1. Original iMac G3 (powers on, drive doesn’t mount).
  2. Graphite iBook G3 (power supply dead).
  3. 2005 Mac mini G4 (powers on, I couldn’t get it to display anything).
  4. PowerMac G5 (works).
  5. Old-school clear plastic Apple Cinema Display and Apple Cinema Display HD (works with G5), and aluminum Cinema Display HD.
  6. 2006 MacBook Pro (works on power supply only).
  7. 2008 MacBook Pro (works).
  8. Two mid-2011 iMacs (works).
  9. 2013 MacBook Air (works).
  10. 2017 iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch (works).
  11. About 10 hard drives of various sizes.
  12. A bunch of spare keyboards etc.
  13. I also have a bunch of ancient iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Palm devices, and various other stuff.

They will be included in the estate sale in September. Put it on your calendar if interested in them, or our other stuff. It’s going to be a huge event! Sorry, no advance sales.

iMac G3

Old Macs etc

(Everything in that picture will be for sale, other than the contents of the two plastic bins on the floor.)

As part of preparing for our estate sale, I’m wiping my many old Macs and hard drives, all of which will be sold. Here’s my old PowerMac G5, running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. (If anyone in the Portland region wants some old Macs, plan to come to the sale!) 🖥

Power Mac G5

Power Mac G5

Power Mac G5

We have a sign on our entertainment shelves, that we changed to “NOW SHOWING” for our real estate showings. The other day, Paladin knocked it over, with some letters falling off, resulting in it saying “SHWING”. We were amused.

SHWING!

Well, that’s very disappointing. The deal on the RV we were purchasing has fallen through. So now we’re back to the drawing board, searching for another coach. We’ve still got time, but that was a perfect one for us; we were so excited to find it. Alas!

Fun fact: I have a TextExpander snippet to write the Throwback Thursday text, that automatically includes the appropriate week number and year, thusly:

#! /bin/tcsh
set w=`date +"%U"` ; set y=`expr 1969 + $w + 1` ; echo "For week/year $w of my 52 years celebration, from ${y}: . #ThrowbackThursday #52years"

Which outputs:

For week/year 31 of my 52 years celebration, from 2001: . #ThrowbackThursday #52years