On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Heidi Ifft wrote:
Bottom line question, before I PAY to send the old machine to a computer graveyard, should I look at any particular sites? Is there a market for old parts? Might there be a more computer savvy person who can do an actual tear down and sell parts? Trust me -- I realize I won't be getting rich off of this old DOA machine. I was just curious...I'd much prefer to make $30 than to pay $45 to have it hauled away. If anyone has thoughts, I'd greatly appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Thanks, in advance.
As the others suggested, Craigslist it for parts salvage value, but don't expect to get much more than the value to ship it somewhere. It beats paying someone to properly dispose of it though.
There are better cheap options for running MacOSX, but you could Google MorphOS3.0 and you will find a small group of people that are using several models of similar G4 Mac computers to run an alternate OS that they are passionate about. The Quicksilver is one of the best models for running MorphOS3.0, because it is the easiest and latest of the G4 PowerMac's which you can easily find 1.6GHz to 2.0GHz accelerated G4 CPU modules for. The MDD and FW800 models of the G4 PowerMac that came after the Quicksilver use a different designed G4 CPU module and accelerated G4's for the MDD and FW800 models are much more difficult to find anywhere and so are more expensive.
If the rust is too extensive, then there won't be much you can salvage from your Quicksilver, but hopefully for you, that is not the case.
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