When I arrived, he was wearing overalls covered in paint and was obviously doing some work on his home. This seller was located in the eastern part of the city. No hard drive or drive caddy, but that can easily be rectified later. I opened the latch to inspect the inside it was clean and had four of five expansion slots full. The computer looked to be in fairly good condition, the odd scratch on the side but nothing cracked or broken. The young man – in his 20s, with tattoed arms and stretched earlobes – told me he had gotten some old computers from his father, machines he claimed he had no use for.įinally, here it was, a silver Power Macintosh G4 Quicksilver, dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 CPU. When the door finally opened, the seller greeted me and asked me to wait for a moment while he retrieved the machine. The seller asked for me to wait a moment while he locked up the dog.

After a quick knock at the door, the sounds of a big dog were heard. Lucky me – the seller was at the top of the building up a steep set of stairs. The pick up was clear across town, at an apartment building with only a handful of units. Since he seemed like a motivated seller who simply needed the space, my offer of $20CAD was accepted. The seller claimed that it worked but that he didn’t really need such a machine. The Power Mac was listed on Kijiji simply as “Old Apple Tower”. This week’s bounty: a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, an Atari 600XL, and a TI 99/4A. I scour online ads for days at a time, looking for that precious PC being cast aside. It’s all about the hunt and the thrill of the deal.

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