Quote: Originally posted by Stradlater: doorstop What he said.

I'm using the spare parts as decorations.

My tangerine iBook runs OS 9, good for portable writing. Old PCs I install Linux on and donate to schools or charities. I just got a blazing Pentium III/500 to run QNX on.

My Powerbook 540c runs After Dark, since OS X can't. It's the only job it has now.

My Dell keeps the carpet on the floor. Carpetweight (TM)

Old PC + vid card with A/V Out + OEM Remote Wonder = The media player stashed out of sight in my living room.

my wife uses it as her computer.....

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My old PC laptop is being used as a wireless floppy drive Every once in a full moon, I need to put something on this aged data medium. I can access the floppy directly from the F…

Who are "The Beatles"?

Quote: Originally posted by disectamac: are the beatles still getting million dollar checks from Apple over iTunes? I use to like the beatles until they sued Appl…

are the beatles still getting million dollar checks from Apple over iTunes?

Whatever happen to the "cube" lawsuit?

The judge also said "It defies logic and common sense that a customer walking into a computer store would mistake Mac OS 9 costing $99, for the high end, embedded OS-9, which costs…

The zdnet link doesn't work, but it looks like Apple's dead OS is in the clear. Thanks for the quick reply.

You meant this? Microware to Sue Apple Over OS 9 Trademark

Apple wins 'OS 9' trademark lawsuit * The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa has dismissed Microware Systems Corporation's lawsuit seeking to enjoin Apple from …

Remember when OS9 came out? Microware, who had been producing a product called OS9 for almost 20 years, sued Apple. Whatever happened? Was it dropped? Was it settled? Did the …

Hey there folks, I finally decided to use some of my Christmas money to buy myself a 7200rpm travelstar, and am trying to decide what to do with the old drive. The MacAlly phr250c…

I bought a Firewire casing from OWC and use the old drive for backups. Works great.

I have a 10 gig hard drive from my 500 mhz ibook sitting on a shelf. I replaced it with a 40 gig. I plan on putting the 10 gig into my orange clamshell ibook which only has a 3 g…

Second that. OtherWorldComputing.com firewire cases are NICE! See here: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_It...Item=OWCMOTGFW pd

When my old Pismo G3 20Gb filled up I replaced it with a 60Gb Travelstar and bought a transparent Oxford bridge case for it. A year later, I upgraded the Pismo to a 12"PB Rev A wit…

I put mine in an OWC portable FireWire enclosure, put OS X and OS 9 on it and use it as an emergency utility boot drive. tooki