Sunday, October 09, 2005
Give-aways, sales, G3's, and 8500's
Another long time between posts! We finished out the 04-05 school year giving away almost 30 Macs, the largest number yet. Completely cleared all the powermacs I wanted to give away, but still the storage area is overcrowded!
During the summer I had some more non-Mac work to do, and now I have a second job programming at home, so there's not been much time to fool around with old Macs. I've wanted to do more selling of excess stuff, at really low prices just to move it, but always seem to procrastinate.
I've got a pair of clamshell iBooks and I think all the parts needed to make them work properly. From previous experience I need to set aside a big block of time to open, change parts, and re-assemble an iBook.
The other machines new to me are beige G3 desktops. I've made 2 good ones out of 3 donors, and one is already running OS X Jaguar. To be useful they need more memory (at least 256M) and larger hard drives, but I expect to swap one of them in for an 8500 we've been using at home for several years.
For my other 8500 I've been sitting on a 180 processor, 512K cache, 12x CD, a couple of PCI cards, and 3x the existing disk space, so one of these days I'll give it a major upgrade. The 8500 fits in my desk space where a desktop G3 does not. Maybe I'll find a mini-tower beige G3...
During the summer I had some more non-Mac work to do, and now I have a second job programming at home, so there's not been much time to fool around with old Macs. I've wanted to do more selling of excess stuff, at really low prices just to move it, but always seem to procrastinate.
I've got a pair of clamshell iBooks and I think all the parts needed to make them work properly. From previous experience I need to set aside a big block of time to open, change parts, and re-assemble an iBook.
The other machines new to me are beige G3 desktops. I've made 2 good ones out of 3 donors, and one is already running OS X Jaguar. To be useful they need more memory (at least 256M) and larger hard drives, but I expect to swap one of them in for an 8500 we've been using at home for several years.
For my other 8500 I've been sitting on a 180 processor, 512K cache, 12x CD, a couple of PCI cards, and 3x the existing disk space, so one of these days I'll give it a major upgrade. The 8500 fits in my desk space where a desktop G3 does not. Maybe I'll find a mini-tower beige G3...
