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Offline Parak

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« on: Mon, 22 November 2010, 01:39:55 »
Quite an obscure and not so little piece of mac memorabilia. The few of these that were made were basically early macs custom stuffed into IBM cases.
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Offline Sam

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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 22 November 2010, 01:46:41 »
Do you mean real IBM cases or some IBM compatible cases?  I've never seen a real IBM with that kind of a case.  Years ago I had dealings with Apple at multiple different levels.  At one point it was necessary for John Sculley, who was at Apple at that time, to use a PC system.  They asked repeatedly if it was possible to port the application to a Mac, but there was simply no way to do it, economically or time-wise.  So the solution to avoid hurting Apple's pride was that I was given an Apple badge to place over the IBM badge for as long as the equipment was being used by Apple.
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Offline Parak

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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 22 November 2010, 01:52:40 »
Sorry, IBM compatible. No idea on the exact one used.

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So the solution to avoid hurting Apple's pride was that I was given an Apple badge to place over the IBM badge for as long as the equipment was being used by Apple.


Yep, sounds like Apple!
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Offline lowpoly

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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 22 November 2010, 06:18:52 »
This looks bigger than the original Macintosh. Which had a similar carrying case.
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Offline Parak

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« Reply #4 on: Mon, 29 November 2010, 13:42:35 »
Sold for $5,400. :o
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