More free Macs!
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lprovenEver fancied an Apple Macintosh to play with? Know anyone you think might like one? Please pass word of this around!
I've just rescued a clutch of old Macs from the skip. All can be supplied with keyboards, mice, monitors - 12" or 14" is the best you're going to get, I'm afraid - power leads and printer/network cables if you want them.
3 are old Motorola 680x0 Macs. These will run up to MacOS 8.1, which is the version I'd recommend, if they have enough RAM - 32MB or more. I'm not currently sure of how much RAM or disk space they've got, but I'll find out soon. If they're short, I can probably supply some extra for free, too.
I have 2 Performa 475s, the last of the low-profile LC series. Quite fast little machines for their time. These should have 160MB disks; at least 1 has some extra RAM. No CD nor room for an internal one but they'll drive an external SCSI CD - I may be able to supply 1 or 2 of these and Mac drivers for it too, although I could do with a fiver or so for the cables, if so.
Then there's a Mac IIsi. Spec unknown. This is only a 68030 so strictly it's meant to be limited to System 7.6.1 - a pretty good OS, actually, and Internet-capable - but there is a hack to get 8.1 on there.
All will, if you desire, be supplied wiped & reinstalled with the latest appropriate version of MacOS, drivers and some free apps.
Finally, some PowerPC Macs:
A PowerMac 7100. I'm not specifying the speed 'cos we're not sure, but I'm fairly sure this has a G3 accelerator inside, so possibly up to 233MHz or more. Memory, we think, is reasonable - 1 or 2 hundred meg or so - but this machine, alas, is based on the NuBus architecture so cannot run Mac OS X. It will run Linux or NetBSD, though.
To go with this, I also have a 21" mono monitor and accompanying graphics card, plus an Ethernet card if you fancy making it into a router or something. (It has onboard Ethernet.) Normally the machine uses system RAM for video memory so using the graphics card will give you more RAM and a slight speed increase - but you'll lose colour. Alternatively, get a VGA convertor plug and run two desktops, a big mono one and a small colour one.
Finally, a PowerMac 6100/66. Again no idea currently of RAM or disk space. This can also be upgraded with a G3 and so on but it requires special parts and isn't generally worth it. I can probably supply more RAM and a secondary hard disk though.
These last 2 machines will run MacOS 9.1 - effectively the last version - and I'll supply them wiped and installed with some free applications and so on.
For now, they must be collected from Mitcham, Surrey, but by next month I should be able to deliver in the London area.
I've just rescued a clutch of old Macs from the skip. All can be supplied with keyboards, mice, monitors - 12" or 14" is the best you're going to get, I'm afraid - power leads and printer/network cables if you want them.
3 are old Motorola 680x0 Macs. These will run up to MacOS 8.1, which is the version I'd recommend, if they have enough RAM - 32MB or more. I'm not currently sure of how much RAM or disk space they've got, but I'll find out soon. If they're short, I can probably supply some extra for free, too.
I have 2 Performa 475s, the last of the low-profile LC series. Quite fast little machines for their time. These should have 160MB disks; at least 1 has some extra RAM. No CD nor room for an internal one but they'll drive an external SCSI CD - I may be able to supply 1 or 2 of these and Mac drivers for it too, although I could do with a fiver or so for the cables, if so.
Then there's a Mac IIsi. Spec unknown. This is only a 68030 so strictly it's meant to be limited to System 7.6.1 - a pretty good OS, actually, and Internet-capable - but there is a hack to get 8.1 on there.
All will, if you desire, be supplied wiped & reinstalled with the latest appropriate version of MacOS, drivers and some free apps.
Finally, some PowerPC Macs:
A PowerMac 7100. I'm not specifying the speed 'cos we're not sure, but I'm fairly sure this has a G3 accelerator inside, so possibly up to 233MHz or more. Memory, we think, is reasonable - 1 or 2 hundred meg or so - but this machine, alas, is based on the NuBus architecture so cannot run Mac OS X. It will run Linux or NetBSD, though.
To go with this, I also have a 21" mono monitor and accompanying graphics card, plus an Ethernet card if you fancy making it into a router or something. (It has onboard Ethernet.) Normally the machine uses system RAM for video memory so using the graphics card will give you more RAM and a slight speed increase - but you'll lose colour. Alternatively, get a VGA convertor plug and run two desktops, a big mono one and a small colour one.
Finally, a PowerMac 6100/66. Again no idea currently of RAM or disk space. This can also be upgraded with a G3 and so on but it requires special parts and isn't generally worth it. I can probably supply more RAM and a secondary hard disk though.
These last 2 machines will run MacOS 9.1 - effectively the last version - and I'll supply them wiped and installed with some free applications and so on.
For now, they must be collected from Mitcham, Surrey, but by next month I should be able to deliver in the London area.
