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Re: Abandoned Apple Store in Kuwait

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Post by cbo100 » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 12:12 AM UTC

jpeterman wrote: post #7

The photos appear to have been taken in January of 2005 From the photographer: "I passed by an old Apple Store today. I used to pass by this store back when I was still in highschool. I used to admire the macs they had on display and always beg my parents to buy me one.. which they never did. Surprisingly the store hasn't changed much. It was freaky checking out the place from the outside. It's as if the shop was stu…

> "I used to work at this shop in 1995 or so...."

Dating the shelf stock via the "Video Fusion Version 1.5" seems to indicate it's from 1993. Of course I'm not sure how fast stock rotated through a reseller in Kuwait in the early 90s

Re: Abandoned Apple Store in Kuwait

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Post by cyberferret » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 12:23 AM UTC

Wow, they still have the software boxes sitting on the shelves, still in shrinkwrap? That store is a veritable time capsule, no doubt filled with collectors items!

Re: Abandoned Apple Store in Kuwait

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Post by devNoise » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 12:38 AM UTC

I'm pretty sure that one of the pictures has a PowerMac 7500 in it.

http://www.unex-t.com/applestore/index-Pages/Image16.html

I owned one and thought it was a great mac at the time. Bought it used from work. With the CPU boards I was able to upgrade it a couple times. Believe I put in a 603, dual 604e and finally a G3.

Re: Abandoned Apple Store in Kuwait

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Post by aaron695 » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 2:24 AM UTC

Bud wrote: post #10

Someone should go in there and get those posters from the "Think Different" campaign. They're collector's items!

There's probably a house down the road from you with similarly valuable stuff, no need to go to Kuwait!

Hot tip - Art museum traditionally can't afford the security to value ratio of their goods.

They are often orders of magnitude off. Check out smaller ones who have had significant donations from rich people due to their ties to where they grew up.

Re: Abandoned Apple Store in Kuwait

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Post by rasz_pl » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 2:42 AM UTC

cbo100 wrote: post #11

jpeterman wrote: post #7

The photos appear to have been taken in January of 2005 From the photographer: "I passed by an old Apple Store today. I used to pass by this store back when I was still in highschool. I used to admire the macs they had on display and always beg my parents to buy me one.. which they never did. Surprisingly the store hasn't changed much. It was freaky checking out the place from the outside. It's as if the shop was stu…

> "I used to work at this shop in 1995 or so...." Dating the shelf stock via the "Video Fusion Version 1.5" seems to indicate it's from 1993. Of course I'm not sure how fast stock rotated through a reseller in Kuwait in the early 90s