Duke used to do this, too. They had a warehouse and you could just walk through the obsolete equipment and find bargains. Most was beat all to hell, but we used to troll through regularly, as Mac gear was often recent vintage and underused. A buddy got a couple of NeXT cubes for pocket money. I still regret not buying the Pixar rack (literally an entire rack cabinet, the size of a kitchen fridge, filled with... something) for $700.
I think I had a seizure. A PIXAR RACK!!?? I had humbler intentions when I was younger. My dad used to show me old SGi Irix workstations and Sun Microsystems. This was a clear decade before I touched my first Unix clone (Linux), let alone a real Unix (Solaris) a year earlier for gcc-compiled requirement for CS homework. I would hardly say that was "using Unix" because I could barely do anything with Solaris.
Needless to say, I will peruse eBay to see Sparc workstations. I had no idea as a younger teen what my dad saw, but I same a beautiful minimalism in the design that I would later found out masked unique power and crazy price tags.
It would have been really funny if I caved and bought this thing as teen. I would have no idea how to use it and parts costs would have killed me.
