Yo compacters everywhere, A couple of our listers have heaped help of the right kind all over me. Let me explain. A while back, our fellow lister John Snook aka:
"Snook, John R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted here that he had acquired a mixed pallet of our lovable Macs. He kindly offered them up free to any lister who could manage their way to his home in Portland, Oregon out here on the left coast of the U.S.A. Well, that is a long drive for me but doable. I eMailed John about a slow project I have going up at the senior center. You see, we now have 17 SEs configured and used as classroom trainers, eMailers, and loaners. I explained to John, that while the SEs are all lookin' good and smellin' better, I was looking to acquire eight Classic IIs to upgrade our long in the tooth eight SE classroom trainers. They are getting farther and farther from an iMac every day. Now, I could replace them with 630 or 6100 Macs which we have (in my basement) in sufficient number. But we simply don't have the space at the senior center to store all those big boxes and monitors, nor their train. And I'm the fellow who sets them up and tears 'em down each and every class. So all-in-one compa! cts it is going to be. Over the last two years, we have received the donation of three Classic IIs which I thought might make a suitable upgrade for our trainers if we could only achieve eight of them. Explaining this to John, I said even one Classic II would be progress towards our goal and asked if his pallet contained any Classic IIs at all. John quickly returned my eMail saying there were eight Classic IIs on the pallet; they were mine if I could come fetch them. Ooo, ooo, ooo, a complete change out of our eight classroom SEs leaving my three for spares and development. Ooo, ooo, ooo. Squeezing some room among the other distracting trivia of our lives, John and I settled on a Saturday late in November right after Thanksgiving. In this conversation, John alluded as to how some spare Classic II motherboards were in this cache if I wanted them. Oh, and one more thing, he had been working with another of our listers, Lorraine aka: raino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who hails from down about Eugene, Oregon. Anyway, John and raino had put together a care package of now 17 Classic IIs; a one-for-one change out of our entire SE fleet. On that Saturday, I visited John to return home with 17 Classic IIs in my little red Geo Storm. Sunday was a thirteen hour marathon pphongging all 17 into life and doing a bit of software scavenging. Yup, all 17 work. A lot more work will see these 17 in service before the crocus bloom. But this is what winters are for. That is enough of this tale for now. I am keeping a weekly summary of my progress on this project. And from these summaries, this list shall see some of my problems and, I trust, problem solving with Classic IIs. I have dubbed this fleet of Classic IIs "The Magnificent Seventeen". >From me and many to come who will have their first Mac experience on "The Magnificent >Seventeen", a great deal of our thanks to each of you, John and raino. . Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
