Okay, I'm gonna need a moment to go over the total treasure trove that was Vintage Computer Festival Southeast's consignment area this weekend.
-Amiga 2000 rev. 6.2 (8372A Agnus, but standard OCS Denise and Kickstart 1.3) with A2091 SCSI controller (no added Fast RAM, unfortunately), a 4 GB SCSI HDD (that it didn't seem to boot from), a Video Toaster card, keyboard (missing the right Alt keycap and tactile sleeve, but functional), tank mouse, and a loaded floppy that turned out to have Workbench 1.3 on it. You bet I was taking that thing home ASAP!
However, the SCSI HDD wasn't exactly bootable off the bat, and a cable was missing. I haven't exactly had the best of luck getting it to boot from the SCSI HDD without trying to format it elsewhere (which I want to avoid, given what a PITA it is to get Amiga-bootable media going on a PC), but it does boot off the Workbench floppy just fine. Thankfully, so does that Amiga 500 I imported earlier.
-Power Macintosh 9600/200 with a few expansion cards (PATA controller, combo USB/FireWire, ATI Rage 128, SB Live!, Ethernet, other things I can't immediately remember), all the drive covers (you'd be surprised how many of these are missing a few), and some kind of XLR8 G3 upgrade (as I understand, it's sorta like a slotket adapter that G3 and G4 ZIF modules can then be installed in), but only a PATA optical drive.
I knew I had to have this one too when I saw it being unloaded from a van just crammed full of vintage Mac stuff, and as it turns out, the seller had used it as a primary machine for a while, well aware of how expandable it was. The 9600 was my endgame bridge Mac, the one I sought to replace my existing 6500 with, and replace I did.
However, it seems like the pre-installed PATA controller isn't being picked up as a bootable device. I don't have a SCSI HDD currently set up since I also sold the IIcx there, but I do have a spare 1 GB drive I was in the middle of setting up before VCF hit. Didn't think to claim any more SCSI drives while I was there, either.
-17" CRT Apple Studio Monitor, partly for the aesthetic factor, partly because it's still aperture grille, partly because my Sun GDM-5410 is looking primed to join my Sony GDM-FW900 in the FD Trinitron afterlife. Thankfully, this monitor turns on just fine, has no screen scuffs or scratches that I noticed, and doesn't display any apparent color issues. This one's definitely a keeper.
-A fairly stripped-down, parts unit MDD G4 single 1.25 GHz FW400, just in case it had parts I could use on my main MDD. It was pretty cheap, after all.
-Rocketfish 900W 80+ Silver modular PSU, sealed in box. Hardly vintage, but how many PSUs that specced-out do you see being sold for under $20? If anything, I'm running short on ATX PSUs for all my systems!
-Box of 50 "duplicator-grade" blank DSDD 3.5" floppies. Pricing seemed high at first, but it quickly sunk in why: those were actually listed by one of the Amiga enthusiasts with a table there. (A table with a thoroughly-hotrodded Amiga 1200 with an A1200.net transparent case, a Blizzard1260 accelerator with SCSI expansion, Indivision AGA, USB controller, some kind of really compact IDE header SSD... to say that thing alone was worth several hundred dollars is an understatement!)
A bit of negotiation later, and I should be able to prepare myself to get any ol' Mac or Amiga up and running with these, without the kludgery of taping holes on HD disks and hoping it works when formatted as DD.
Now, as for the things I didn't get, but are worth noting because I never expected to see that kind of hardware there:
-Atari 1040ST + SC1224 monitor, both boxed. I was waiting for a price tag to be stuck on 'em, not knowing how VCF consignments went (this was my first), but next thing I knew, they were tagged "SOLD".
-NeXTstation Turbo with monitor, keyboard and mouse. Seriously thought about this one, but ultimately realized I don't know what I'd do with NeXT stuff as someone mainly concerned about retrogaming (and for which I have no idea what id Software were doing on 'em while developing Doom).
-SGI Indy. No accessories. Also passed because the only Indy I would want would have N64 devkit hardware in it.
-Apple DOS compatibility cards, both the official Apple ones and a couple of OrangePC ones with 486DX-33s on 'em.
-Macintosh 128k in its own carrying case, keyboard and mouse included!
-Macintosh SE/30, also with a matching keyboard and mouse. Despite the high list price, someone must've made an offer good enough for it to sell, because it was gone by event's end.
-Macintosh Classic. I tested the Cmd-Opt-X-O startup sequence, and sure enough, it worked. There was also a HDD inside that also worked for booting from.
-IBM portable (as in "luggable") PC with a nice XT-style keyboard.
-Stripped-down Macintosh Quadra 950. If I could find more than a case, logic board and PSU for it, I might have snagged that one too, but I didn't feel like trying to source all the rest.
-Two Power Mac G5s. One of 'em sold.
-Way too many Macintosh IIcx and IIci systems to count, and the occasional full-size Mac II. (No IIx or IIfx, though; I checked!)
Really now, I'm just kinda scratching the surface of what was there. It was a lot to think about buying, but I only have so much space in my car (and at home), not to mention that it's not the sorta environment that's easy to actually test that hardware in before buying. At the very least, my big-ticket items snagged there power on without errors, so that's good.
Pics to come later; I still need to arrange everything.