Not a lot really..
Probably not worth taking..

I wouldn't go below an old iMac really

But could I use something from them, like the HD or something?

I have Macs that old sitting around. No use of them to me. Not sure what to do with 'em either. I'd say don't take 'em unless you want your mom pestering you to get rid of them every time you go home.

Might be handy for keeping a door open

The HDs are at best 500MB..
They run at 66mhz..

No USB just old serial. HDs probably not compatible.
Big *fugly* white elephants I'm afraid..

The HDs are compatible, but they are small. Mine had 230MB, if I remember correctly.

Good for the following:
- play old games (back when graphics sucked, they made games more fun - because they had to. )
- good for small kids. Hypercard stacks, old educational software have just as much value as today's software
- web/mail server. There are a couple of freeware web/mail servers for MacOS 7-9 - and it's easy to make CGIs in AppleScript to do what you want. Throw on a copy of FileMaker 4-6, and you have a decent web-enabled database server
- word processing. Use it to type papers for school
- file server - tiny HD though, probably not worth it.

However, if you are going to have a light-duty web/mail server in a room you spend time in, get a fanless iMac - then you don't have to listen to it as it runs all day and night.

ebay Maybe get $20 off of each one.

Music. They're still good for MIDI.
Go see if your local studios want any sequencers for their project rooms. Or get into it yourself.

Hmmm... I wonder what the shipping would be from Iceland to Blighty. I could easily use two or three of 'em.

You could get a bat and take out all of your aggression onto them. Then get some super glue and put the pieces back together randomly. Then sell your creation as a contemporary work of art. The money you make from it should get you a new G5.

Actually, I did consider this one - but you'd have to find an old serial to midi-box (or get an old Korg eg 05R/w which has a built in Mac serial port). Plus you'd have to find an old copy of CUbase or Logic etc..

If it was me I'd have good intentions but would probably end up with it in a cupboard, waiting for that monent to get round to doiing something about it..

..Like the the 10 Mac+ bodies I rescued from a skip

you can use it for folding@home if you don't mind the electricity...

Keeping in mind that you'll be constantly blowing 30W on a monitor you can't turn off.

Of course, in Iceland, that fact probably doesn't enter considerations.

-s*

Note: The drives in these machines are some of the last SCSI drives shipped with a Mac, not IDE - so they probably won't work if you have a more recent machine.

Sonnet makes/made a bunch of G3 upgrades for these machines which you might be able to find on eBay - I used one for a while, and it made a *huge* difference. No OSX though - you're stuck with 9.0.

... It looks like their Crescendo/NuBus G3 could be a good solution.

The 6100 series were the only ones that ran Marathon well .

There was a bug either in the game, Quicktime, or System 7 where the MIDI track's percussion track wouldn't play, which made the music better (for me). Nowadays you can't even run Marathon in Classic mode without the new MIDI instruments which sound like ass.

Mike

Or let a modern Mac fold for a few hours.

BAH!

Someone beat me to it and got all of them. But thanks anyway guys.

Not so... A lot of the new boxes still do serial (check Emagic's site, for example).



Yeah. That could be a problem. Still, where there's a will there's a an Overnet.

Find out where they live and go past in a few days. They'll be outside in a skip..