On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:18 pm, Christopher Wood wrote: > Michelle, I have gotten dozens of old x86 boxes at my local dump. Last > week I scrounged up a Sony Vaio 1.7 gigaherts P4 with a USB, Firewire, > 80 gig drive, CD burner, dvd player, 64 meg Nvidia card, 256 megs of > ram. It runs awesome. I can't believe what gets thrown away for > recycling in the pc world.
Me too. One of my best little machines was a dot-com refugee. (Like its owner!) It's a Celeron 466, and still in daily use. I've not scrounged something as spectacular as your find...yet. > If you go the Linux route I personally prefer > running it on an x86 box than an old world Mac. Never installed it on a > new world Mac as I like OS X on a Blue & White G3 given 512 megs of ram > and at least 400 MHz. oh, these old pc's usually have pc 100 or 133 ram > to scrounge, or nice burners and big drives for Mac's which is cool. Actually "New World" machines like the Blue-And-White are the best machines for Linux too. The specific one I'm thinking of turning into a server is a 350MHz one with a DVD-ROM and 512MB RAM. I think maybe I'll go the OS X route though, even though one running MacOS 9 would be cooler for hack value. -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
