Skip to main content
Home Forums Some free stuff for helping out Some free stuff for helping out
Thread

Some free stuff for helping out

Some free stuff for helping out PowerPC 4 posts Jan 25, 2009 — Jan 25, 2009
My friend and I helped out a bit at the non-profit computer recycler today unloading a truck. Someone held a drive on their behalf. They expected just a small truck but it was actually a 17' U-Haul filled to capacity. So we helped out a bit and she let us take the Apple stuff, which was a small lot:

ImageWriter II

LC 580

Apple 15" Multi Scan

Power Mac 8500

We actually came to buy an iMac G5 but wound up helping all day.

Not a bad lot...I've always liked the 580s with the shadow mask displays (I'm honestly not a huge fan of the Trinitrons since there's that line that runs through them; I've also found their geometry to become worse than shadow masks over time).

Ha 8500 was my first PPC, I had a 475 before that, could not believe how powerfull the 8500 was.

8500 was the first mac I ever bought with my own money. upped the ram to 136mb i think and used it for quite a few years before it slowed due to age. Took 5 min to boot at times, even with a 180mhz 604 in it.

mp.ls