Re: Market for Vintage Macs?

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:21:56 GMT

do they have hard drives?

if they do, download Yellowdog Linux, burn, install it on them, and call
it a day. if they don't, get some cheap drives on ebay and do the above.

not that big of a deal. be happy the rest was given to you for free and
this is all you have to do for a lot of great computers.

Thomas Armagost wrote:
> In message <flotte-981084.16214111092004@corp.supernews.com>,
> Fred Lotte <flotte@nospam.stratos.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Just this past week the group received about a dozen slot loading
>>iMacs
>
>
> Yes, a school would be crazy about those machines. The slot-loading
> iMac series started with the original 350MHz bondi blue model
> <http://lowendmac.com/imacs/blue.shtml> and ended with the DV SE.
>
>
>>that a local business replaced with Dell something or other
>>(where's the Apple sales department?).
>
>
> A business might switch to Dell for any number of reasons. If they
> need software that isn't available on a Mac, Apple is screwed.
>
>
>>THE MACHINES WERE DONATED WITHOUT THE SYSTEM DISKS OR ANY
>>SOFTWARE!!!!!
>>
>>It's the group's practice to wipe the HD clean to some MIL spec
>>and load an operating system.
>
>
> May I suggest some variant of Linux for PowerPC? It's freeware.
> Linux has an impressive array of programs and options for schools.
> <http://k12os.org/>
> All free. And what an exciting challenge for your group.
>
> Yellow Dog, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Debian all have up-to-date distros
> online. SuSE 7.3 PPC is a trifle out of date, but it's probably
> good enough for slot-loading iMacs. I can vouch for SuSE. Sweet.
>
>
>>My PC centric friends have some type of deal from Bill himself that
>>allows them to load some version of Windose on about a thousand old
>>Intel machines a year which are given to schools and churches. They
>>are clueless when it comes to Apple and don't know that the
>>software situation is changing almost daily and a donated machine
>>may not be able to use the currently available OS.
>
>
> Yes, I think Apple's dumb not to continue selling X.1.x, X.2.x and
> 9.2.2... Of course, Apple could be totally cool and give 'em away
> for free... I doubt that it would hurt their sales much if they
> did--most of Apple's customers are constantly drooling for the
> latest and greatest. Imagine the goodwill that giving away X.1 and
> X.2 would generate. Think coolness factor.
>
>
>>The group doesn't have the money to buy an OS for donated machines
>>and, since Apple no longer seems to provide key legacy OS's for
>>free, these machines may be useless... actually worse than useless
>>since they take up a lot of space (they have Windose boxen stacked
>>eye high, you can't stack iMacs).
>>
>>My reason for writing this is to point out that:
>>
>>IF YOU DONATE THE MACHINE, AT LEAST DONATE THE SOFTWARE THAT CAME
>>WITH IT and any upgrades that you no longer need!!!!!!
>>
>>I could write more but my blood pressure is too high from just
>>this ;-)
>
>
> The cost of prescription meds makes my blood boil. ;-)
>

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