they’d give for a grouchy old man (me).

Apples were more rare than IBMs or clones. Some will fetch.

similar to one that I used as a kid. Let's just say I paid triple digits for it. For certain computers, even very old ones, there is a market for them.

And I am glad to say that 2 years after I bought the antique, I finally got it connected. Was/is great to relive old times. (I am a bit of a techie). It was a real blast for me to see that screen that I worked and played with decades ago.

You would be surprised what people are willing to pay for certain types of computers for nostalgia's sake. Totally agree that it's worth spending a few minutes to see what the prevailing price is. Worst case, the OP can always give it away, MAKING SURE they wipe the hard drive if possible.

I see the same stuff offered on Craigslist week after week after week ...

For a while people were turning Mac Classics into aquariums. The lexo-lamp iMac might have some takers, it was a pretty cute machine.

Neither are worth much if anything as a running computer. Be sure and note that they don't boot and be careful of shipping costs being more than what you might get for them

Hmm, personally I'd recycle them assuming that the contents of their disks might have personal data on them.

And ... if you want to recover anything interesting off their disks, it's a little complicated but not that hard to pull out the
hard drives and put them in external carriers so you could plug them into your current Mac (if you have one) and copy off
anything interesting.

You can leave it out at the end of the sidewalk and let someone take it for free.

All-in-One | Tech Specs

Mac Classic

LEM Staff - 1990.10.15

Introduced as the first sub-$1,000 Macintosh in October 1990, the basic Classic came with 1 MB of RAM, a SuperDrive, and space to mount an internal SCSI hard drive. The hard drive version came with 2 MB of memory and a 40 MB hard drive. RAM expansion was via a 1 MB daughter card with two open slots, which could accept a pair of 256 KB or 1 MB SIMMs. This made memory upgrades far easier than on the Plus or SE, since the motherboard didn’t have to be removed. At the same time, it means you should avoid any used Classic without 2 MB or more memory unless you have a source for the memory card.



What Apple was thinking releasing an 8 MHz computer so late in the game is beyond me. By 1990, 8 MHz was just too slow for practical use, although that didn’t keep Apple from selling it or people from buying it. At this point, a 16 MHz Classic would have been sweet (see our review of the 16 MHz Brainstorm upgrade in a Mac Plus for details on that).

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Depends how much effort you want to put into it, but I'd advertise on Craigslist or your local Nextdoor or maybe even Facebook Market. I've seen people turn them into things, and lots of Mac users love to play with the old stuff. You won't get a lot of $ but there are certainly people who'd love to have what you have.

and running a few native applications. It could be fun.

Or go fishing.

Maybe tell some kid you'll treat them and a few friends to pizza if they can get it running.

The guy had a G4 laptop on the table. "Make me an offer," he said.

I've been to a lot of yard sales. I went into my spiel. Due to my having many, many paperweights already, I am reluctant to take on any more old computers. I gave him my standard offer, which is $1. That was the highest offer he had received all day. He threw in two other Mac laptops to go with it.

Yeah, it runs, but there's not really much I can do with it. You get up to OS X 10.4.11 on it, and that's the end. Any OS past that is beyond its abilities.

So Mac G4 laptops are worth 33 cents apiece. That's just about what your computers are worth. The iMac might get more due to the odd appearance.

Look them up on Low End Mac (aka This Old Mac) or Everymac to see what you have.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/specs/mac_classic.html

If you can get them running, they might work as a printer server or as a display for a yuletime burning log.

They really aren't worth anything, I'd clean them so that there's nothing personal on them and then recycle in the cheapest possible way you can. Apple stores will take them for free.