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JediKnightChewie · 2003-05-17 4:04 pm

i have some older macs sitting around, and i dont really know what to do with them

i just got a workgroupserver 7250, i have a 7600, a 6500, preforma 6112 cd, and someothers, and i dont really know what to do with them all.

christophillis · 2003-05-17 4:37 pm

you could give the 6500 to me! big_smile

Derek W. · 2003-05-17 4:43 pm

I'll take the 7600!

stephen · 2003-05-17 4:48 pm

My school will take the rest tongue

exoguy · 2003-05-17 7:56 pm

No GIVE ME the 7600.

JediKnightChewie · 2003-05-17 9:28 pm

ahhhh, it probably dosent convince you guys any less to take my 7600 if i say ive invested in 256 MB memory for it, found a usb pci card for it, ethernet pci card (it already had one built in port tho), and it will work with the old pc compatability card my dad bought ages ago. no, i actually just bought the 7600 back in december as a christmas present to myself, but my question was more like "what do you guys do with your old computers?" tongue tongue tongue

christophillis · 2003-05-17 9:35 pm

Well, I use them as servers, to play classic games on, and just about any use I can think of for them. shrug

exoguy · 2003-05-17 9:41 pm

Curses. Why must you tempt us chewie and then tell us that we can't have any of them. cry cry tongue

christophillis · 2003-05-17 9:51 pm

I know... it is cruelty.

dv · 2003-05-17 10:00 pm

I mostly just fiddle around, see if they can do X Y or Z thing, and see how well I can tweak them to work.

A bunch of 7600-era macs would make a great basis for a StarCraft party. They can play UT or QuakeIII, but they'd have to be upgraded a lot.

JediKnightChewie · 2003-05-18 10:32 am

well, starting june, those computers are gonna be the only ones i use, and i think my 7600 is gonna be my main comp, but i was just wondering what you peps do with your old ones, cause i didnt know what to do with the others, but thanks for that info about the printing mo'ron .

if you really want them, ill consider the 6500 and the preforma, only problem with that one is, it needs memory, i dont think it has enough to start up with, who ever gave it to us took it out roll . and i think the problem with the 6500 is the hard drive, so not too hard to fix. im just kinda cheap tongue

and no one gets the 7600 unless they give me a 15"pb cool big_smile

benightedbastard · 2003-05-18 11:31 am

Is the 6500 an AV one, or a boring one? I have a 6400 set up in my bedroom as a television and CD player.

LCGuy · 2003-05-19 1:07 am

What do you mean a "boring one"? tongue There's no such thing as a boring Mac. If you find it boring, its not Mac OS. Its Windows NT. tongue

bobo · 2003-05-20 12:56 pm

I have one of those televison a/v tuner equipped 6500s, i was thinking of putting it upstairs in the living room and hookingn it up to the 35 inch computer monitor (which is something i got for dirt cheap becasue it only does 640x480 or 800x600) and using it for the main television. the only thing is that i don't have the remote for it..

christophillis · 2003-05-20 3:53 pm

TV on my mac now there is a cool idea...

mmmna · 2003-06-06 11:33 am

What do I do with my older macs? I possess them. Kinda like a geriatric ward for computing.....

LCGuy · 2003-06-06 11:51 am

I bet he meant that it didn't had the neato tv tuner card...

I know. I was just mucking around. big_smile

flying cucumbers · 2003-06-06 1:40 pm

http://weitzman.net/classicmacs/

LCGuy · 2003-06-07 2:48 am

Ah yes, thanks for mentioning that mo'ron. The remote control you use doesn't have to be for a TV/Video, either. On my LC630 I use a remote for a Sony LBT-D105 HiFi system, and it works great! The buttons that normally control the CD player allow me to control AppleCD Audio Player, the volume buttons work as expected, and the CD button lets me launch and quit Apple Video Player. big_smile Its a really nice setup. Now i just need to find out how i can put the other buttons to use, if i can....

SteelWolf · 2003-07-23 1:25 am

"what do you guys do with your old computers?"

Servers, PCI hosts for Avid Merridien units, running old software... yea...
Those 9600's? DAMN!!! 6 PCI Slots... whoo. And since Merridien is all PCI based, who cares about the processor speed?
Ok yea.

Mymac4ever · 2003-07-23 2:16 am

I have four Macs; a SE/30, a 7200/75, LC II and a 7600(se sig).

The 7600 is my everyday Mac and it's been updated quite alot as you can see in the sig. I use it for games, wordprocessing, some 3D-apps, Internet etc. Ie everything.

I got the 7200 and the LCII for free some while ago and so far they're just not doing anything but I've been thinking of setting up the 7200 as a personal server and maybee control it thru VNC - the only problem with these old Macs is that the fan makes one hell of a noice and I only have a one-room apartment. The LC isn't doing anything at all.

The SE/30 is my very first Mac. It was bought back in 1989 and it still works very fine for DarkCastle and other old games. I keep it mostly for sentimental reason and besides I don't like to throw away perfectly good things - I save everything(as long as I have the space).

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