Macs: Billions and Billions sold.

From: Seth Lewin <sml49_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun Jun 13 20:54:29 2004

On 6/10 Chris wrote:
>
>> None of the goodwill/salvation army stores near my home in NE Massachusetts
>> will even accept computers of any kind for donations. That really annoys
>> me, both from a donatig and a collecting perspective.
>
> The one near me had the same policy. They would refuse them, and if they
> were left when the place was closed, they would chuck the CPU in the
> dumpster and sell whatever parts and software was left.

I happened to be cruising past the recycling area at my town disposal area
Saturday and scored a tangerine-colored iMac someone had put out, keyboard,
mouse and all. Apparently it had been slightly bastardized at some point -
it has a 233 mhz G3 Rev A motherboard swapped in instead of the 266 rev B
it should have, also no hard drive but otherwise fine; booted from an OS 9
CD without a hitch. I wondered when I'd start to see machines of this
vintage (early 1999) being chucked - now I have my answer. I'll leave it at
a place where I do a little consulting once I install a drive and it'll save
me dragging my heavy old 1997-vintage PowerBook back and forth. This is a
perfectly useful machine - has 192 mb RAM - I figure I'll install OS 10.3.4
on it and use it to write and to cruise the web. Hardly a scratch on the
case, too. A bargain even after buying it an 80 gig drive and a 3-button
mouse.
Received on Sun Jun 13 2004 - 20:54:29 BST