Re: Market for Vintage Macs?
From: Thomas Armagost (silly_at_well.com)
Date: 09/12/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:30:07 -0700
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 SuSE 7.3 PPC is a trifle out of date, but it's probably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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