Schools should lease computers instead of buy them so when they are done with them they go back to whoever they got them from and get sold off to people who can use them instead of…

Post is gone, wonder if somebody picked it up?

The districts here in Texas are different I guess. Old computers, be it Macs or PCs, are rounded up into pallets and sold through online auctions at http://www.lemonsauctioneers.co…

My districts does basically the same thing, but what makes it worse is that I know there is a barn full of Apple //e's and various service parts that will either be recycled in the…

I also work for our school district in Miami (I'm a shared tech at two elementary schools). Because most of those items usually tend to be tagged by the property control departmen…

Pentium Pro. Now there is a mans CPU.

Does that ISA card have any external ports? How about internal connectors? If all it has is internal connectors, I'd wager that it's some sort of audio processing card and the TI c…

See, I work for a school. If they were anywhere near Seattle, I would pick 'em up and distribute them on the MLA. Let me know if you see anything like this in Seattle.

I wonder if any of them are Mach V's?

;D

Compaq Proliant 800 Workstation with Pentium Pro NEC Protation 8000 4 apple USB keyboards and a super weird ISA Card. I cant figure out what it is. it has its own RAM a Texas In…

I should be getting 2 of those and a powerbook 145b from the friend that gave me my powerbook 150. I can't wait!

During a previous career in broadcast television back in the early 1990s, I sat in on an Avid demonstration, and I recall our station's chief engineer inquiring about the price, be…

Shall I break out the 1995/1996 issues of MacWorld and start price checking?

Bunsen - those little ridges on the bottom right hand corner slide to the right. You will probably have to apply more force than you like. Press inward and out to the right with yo…

Couldn't you theoretically find a wall wart with the right voltage, hack some metal pads, and stuff the pads onto the contacts of the PB100? Probably screw some serious stuff up if…

Re: battery - will do. I'm thinking an SMD NiMH charger IC and a home made AAA NiMH pack. That or finding the smallest lead acid I can. BTW first hurdle - how do you get the bat…

Yeah, they're neat little beasties. I prefer the keyboard on these to the Duos. I personally have three or four of the 100s, but only one works. Two have some random problem that I…

Sweet!

ive got one, the mobo is bad tho

PB100s are very cool - lighter, smaller, and just a little more removed from the present day than all other PB1xx series - very collectible IMHO. And there's gotta be a way to hack…

Yes. But don't rain on his parade yet. Bunsen is savvy enough to know the star-crossed joys of extreme archaism, and with the 100s specifically, as opposed to the rest of the 100…

Well, assuming they got them around 10-12 years ago, each system would have been literally tens of thousands (US$) with all the Avid stuff...multiply that out and include all the s…

How much must all that have cost new I wonder...stuff like that reminds you just how depressing the depreciation of computer equipment is! :'( The Macs alone would surely have co…

Yeah, you could start your own filmmaking school with these...heck, ten years ago when I started at CalArts, we only had two machines that we're setup with Avid hardware.