*UPDATE 12/18/08* > At 9:49 AM -0800 12/10/08, Digital Bill wrote: > > >Afriendhas come into possession of a "huge collection of machines > >all hooked together, mainlyMacs" after the death of the owner, the > >father of a co-worker. He knows nothing about them and wants to see > >if they run and if so, if we can recover any data from them for his > >friend.
1. The original owner appears to have been a heavy smoker, but the 409 trick has worked wonders with the cases. My friend got the bottom off the iMac and cleaned it up, but he's hesitant about opening the top because CRTs retain voltage and he'd like to live a little longer. Though you can clearly tell that the bottom is clean and the top is not.... 2. Apparently at least one spider was living inside the iMac, as my friend found "a weblike substance" growing inside. Supposedly it took an entire can of air to blow all the crap out of the G3. 3. They have discovered at least four other candy-colored iMacs in an abandoned car on the property that "has stuff growing inside it." I know Macs are tough, but are these puppies just a lost cause? (He's shown me pictures, and let's just say it's not a pretty sight.) 4. The owner's daughter has a bunch of OSX install discs. What's the best way to determine what's an OEM disc for a specific machine and what's a generic retail version usable on any machine? (Are the OEMs still gray?) Here's an example of 2 of the DVDs, one a Tiger install, the other a Leopard install... The Tiger just says Mac OS X Tiger Version 10.4 Part # 2Z691-5305-A The Leopard says Mac OS X Leopard CPU Drop-in DVD Version 10.5 Part # 2Z691-6040-A and has additional verbiage "This software is part of a hardware bundle - not to be sold separately"... Obviously, the Leopard is OEM... but is there a database somewhere that would tell us for what machine? 5. Yeah, this is gonna be a project that keeps my friend "occupied" for quite some time, it appears. ;-) --Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
