In a message dated 6/18/2004 10:11:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>It was an old IBM Pentium tower, and I was looking for a tower as a Mac >project box. Peeking inside, I was stunned to see not a standard IDE hard >drive, but rather a 2.5' laptop drive in an adapter. Now, those adapters run >about $12.00 new and they only wanted $8.00 for the whole tower. Long story >short, not only did this beast work like a charm, the hard drive was 6 gigs >(!) and now rests snugly in my PB 3400c. Tech safaris at Goodwill usually >yeald something of interest. ^__^ Yes, yes, YES! Aren't "Tech Safaris" the bestest(!) thing in the world? Nothing comes as close to what Christmas-as-a-kid felt like... There are about 6-8 used computer stores around me, and I get my dad to frequent the Goodwill Tech Store in Austin Texas where he lives, so I get to play "Comin' Up on Loot" (my name for Tech Safari) constantly! I cannot tell you how many G3 processors I have discovered installed in Powerbooks and desktops, or the numerous times "non-working" computers simply needed a simple processor or RAM reconnect... Of equal assistance in these situations is the outright fear and loathing most PC tech people have regarding Macs. Unless someone has quick access to ePay, people are usually all too happy to get rid of the Macs; the fact that they know nothing about them seems to *bother* PC affecionadoes for some reason -- from store owners to my IT guy at work! My all-time coup though? While the time I got a free Color Classic (in a box of items donated to a scrapper) and my recent purchase of a Powerbook 550c come to mind, my biggest acheivement was the time I bought a Toyota MR2 that had "electrical problems" for cheap that only had a malfunctioning alarm, mounted in a strange place w/ the siren wires cut! Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. �- John Fund -- 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> --> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
