Does someone want old, functional computers to be used as props?

Post date: 2020-02-11 04:41:15

Seeing Once Upon A Time In Hollywood got me thinking about how Tarantino and his production design team recreated late-60s California: dozens of vintage cars, billboards, household items, etc. All of this got me thinking about the (still working!) out-of-date computers I own, and wondering if a movie prop house or someplace similar would be interested.

Off the top of my head I know I still have at least four machines that still boot up:

A G3 "bubble" style iMac, blue plastic, running some early flavor of OS X. It has its own circular mouse, and also a matching iOmega Zip drive.

A G5 iMac from 2004, with the built in Superdrive.

A Pentium tower from the late-to-mid 90s, which boasted 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch floppy drives, a CD-ROM drive, and IIRC booted up in Windows 98.

And the oldest, an early 90s Compaq laptop. Don't recall the moddle but it's brown and somewhat clamshell shaped, with a built in trackball in the middle. I believe it was running Windows 3.1 but it's been at least 6 years since I checked. (But it's sat undisturbed an a shelf since then.)

They're useless to the modern day computer user, but is there a way for me to inquire with hobbyists, collectors, or prop-department shoppers to see if they're interested?

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