Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-18 Thread Digital Bill
*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

Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Digital Bill wrote: 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

Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-10 Thread Digital Bill
A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines all hooked together, mainly Macs 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. The machines are

Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Digital Bill wrote: The machines are being removed piecemeal and he's trying to clean them up and get them running. Currently he has either an Indigo Blue or Blueberry iMac, a Power Mac G3 desktop with a Powered by Sonnet sticker on it and a G4 GigE with dual

Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-10 Thread Charles Davis
Hi Bill; Comments interspersed below. On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Digital Bill wrote: A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines all hooked together, mainly Macs after the death of the owner, the father of a co-worker. Hopefully, the former owner wasn't paranoid.

Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-10 Thread Bill Christensen
At 9:49 AM -0800 12/10/08, Digital Bill wrote: A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines all hooked together, mainly Macs 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