on 6/30/03 5:36 PM, Clyde Kahrl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sold a G3 Mt for $100 or thereabouts a few weeks back. I *think* it was a *stock* rev A. > As related to the "Why are old Mac's so expensive??" > thread, your "What's my G3 worth?" question is highly > relevant--particularly with regard to your 'where do I get a USB > Card" issue. > I hope Dan is right about the prices of G4s falling. At > some point someone needs to put up a "Low End Mac Price Calculator." > When you add the cost of better usb, firewire, fast ethernet, fast > drives, throughput, graphics card and ram, CDRW---(also CDRW that > works with new CDR blanks) also mouse that is not falling apart--all > of that stuff starts to add up. > So it seems you can still get $250 for your Beige G3. I > have these machines, and I think that I can keep an old machine to do > one old thing, but after a while, they just get too old. Sometimes > I have trouble remembering all about System 6.5.5--although what a > breakthrough system 6 was! Of my 16 macs, 2 have gone bad (and I > wasted an enormous amount of time in denial) one is a road apple but > available for backup use, 3 are obsolete, 2 are dedicated to phone > service. > Low End Mac was created to deal with the old 68030 machines > (I used my IIci until 2000, and lately I have been thinking I might > go back to it so I can use Word 4.) > BUT the fact is that the G3 came out SIX years ago. Can you > imagine trying to run XP on a six-year-old, cutting-edge 233 Pentium > II? People don't even want to try. But some people want to run > OSX on a (admittedly faster) 233 Beige G3 and they also want to run > it on old 8600s, 9600s and even 7300s. > But you know, if I can pick up a refurbished eMac for $699, > or how about a 1 gig G4 for $1140? What's my time worth? > Sean pointed out that he has an old 120 meg drive. (I > remember paying $5000 for a 300meg server drive in 1989, with an MTBF > of 10khours). I really keep my old SCSI Boxes because I am > ABSOLUTELY SURE I will need them someday. But my new 160 gig drives > hold 1300 of those 120 meg drives--so backup isn't an issue. If you > can find a use for his 120 meg SCSI drive, maybe you can find a use > for my old PLI drive that takes 40 meg removable hard drives. > You might be a redneck if you don't know what's under the > tarp in your yard. Scary.
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