Evening - just having a clearout of all my old beige Mac stuff. We have a LC475 (beautiful beige pizza box), Performa 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 960, Powermac 7100, and a 9600. Unbelievably they all still work (well, I'm working through the pile now...) - except the newest which is the 9600 with a dead video card. Robbed it for my YDL Linux machine. I guess Linux could be put on the last two... There's appletalk boxes & network cables - thought about setting up a quick network game of Spectre Supreme for nostalgia's sake, but just haven't got the room! The Quadra 650 boots in 30 seconds, and has run word 5.0 like everybody wishes it would run now! My 76 year old father-in-law used it for years, without a single crash. Can't bring myself to scrap this stuff cos it all just works like the day it was bought - anyone know anybody that might be interested?
Phil www.figureone.co.uk
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 08:56:40PM +0100, phil wrote:
Evening - just having a clearout of all my old beige Mac stuff. We have a LC475 (beautiful beige pizza box), Performa 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 960, Powermac 7100, and a 9600. Unbelievably they all still work (well, I'm working through the pile now...) - except the newest which is the 9600 with a dead video card. Robbed it for my YDL Linux machine. I guess Linux could be put on the last two...
I'm pretty sure they'll all run Linux; the LC475 / Performa 630 might need upgraded to a full 040 however.
J.
i might be interested in some of them, but for my father, he has a strange liking of the beige beasts...
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:05:25 +0100, Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 08:56:40PM +0100, phil wrote:
Evening - just having a clearout of all my old beige Mac stuff. We have a LC475 (beautiful beige pizza box), Performa 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 960, Powermac 7100, and a 9600. Unbelievably they all still work (well, I'm working through the pile now...) - except the newest which is the 9600 with a dead video card. Robbed it for my YDL Linux machine. I guess Linux could be put on the last two...
I'm pretty sure they'll all run Linux; the LC475 / Performa 630 might need upgraded to a full 040 however.
J.
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On 11 Oct 2004, at 20:56, phil wrote:
The Quadra 650 boots in 30 seconds, and has run word 5.0 like everybody wishes it would run now! My 76 year old father-in-law used it for years, without a single crash.
Oh the irony....... I wonder what would really happen to your father-in-law if you replace it ;)
Craig
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