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Two Freecycle G3s and a G4
I just got word that I can pickup two G3 BW towers and a G4 tower tomorrow from a local Freecycle post. I'm told the two G3s may run and the G4 at least needs a new hard drive. They were posted as parts only so I'm hoping they can be made to work. Counting the iMac I just picked up this will be four Macs in less than a week which is a record for me. 
Yep, it's the same here. Many people in this area are under the impression that anything electronic is valuable so they'll snatch up almost any computers pretty quick. Normally it is so they can sell them on the dodgy markets for a few quid. At least it's a good way of getting rid of things quickly without trashing them!
I still think it's funny when you get "Wanted: high spec laptop" or "Wanted: 20-inch or larger LCD" adverts on the local FreeCycle here!
The 450 DP is up and I am posting this using it. I found two 256mb dimms in the G3s and added two 128mb sticks for 768 total. I put in a 10gb 7200pm Deskstar drive in it that had Panther on it already. It booted right up. I also threw in another 20gb drive I had lying around. It looks practically new inside with very little dust. It even had the plastic pull offs on the front of the case covering up the CD door and zip. I'm told by the person I got it from that she got all three machines from a friend who is a Mac tech who was just going to throw them out.
I got the G3 400 up and running. Since I made out so well on this deal I think it will go back up on Freecycle along with my AIO G3 and another BW 400 I have. I'll definitely keep the G3 450 and G4 450 dual. My daughter now has the iMac 400 DV I aquired so her old iMac 333 will be used as a back up machine. That leaves the AIO out of service.
Thanks. I have been very lucky with Freecycle over the past couple of years. The AIO was picked up yesterday. I got it from a Freecycle post about two years ago. One of the BWs is promised already. Giving them away provides an opportunity to get rid of some other stuff I have lying around that would be worthless otherwise like smaller hard drives, ADB keyboards, cables, and smaller ram sticks.
The other BW G3 and my original BW G3 are now gone. The G4 450 Dual and G3 450 work great. It feels good to give back to Freecycle. I showed the person who picked up one of them today how easy it was to open the case and replace the pram battery. They were quite impressed. Maybe they will become a Mac convert.