On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:46 pm, Montalto, Joe wrote:
Well I guess I could get the ball rolling for some time fillers!
Awww, I was at least hoping for some nice flavoured sandwich fillers ;-)
Question 1: Who here owns a Mac Classic? I've heard that they have dangerous CRT's inside them that can cause you problems once opened. Is this correct, or am I way off?
Partly. If you are VERY careful you can work on these machines perfectly safely, but please be careful, and only work with the mains off and unplugged. The High Tension voltage in the circuitry that drives the tube is enough to do very serious damage to you. I usually leave them for 5-10 mins after I switch them off to allow the residual charge to die down.
Apart from sitting on the shelf looking like vintage equipment, what other uses can they have? 20 (40?)mb of hard drive don't exactly make them server material!
The hard disk can be swapped for pretty much any 50-pin drive, so long as it fits physically into the chassis. As for uses, well...
The Macintosh, Mac 128, Mac 512, Mac Plus, Mac SE and Mac Classic are all 68000 powered and thus pretty low on CPU power. Running System 6.x (on those that support it) or earlier is better than 7.x as 6.x is faster and more compact. These make good clocks, simple e-mail and text writing terminals etc., just don't expect miracles!
The SE/30 on the other hand makes a great server. The 68030 CPU and capacity for up to 128MB of RAM make it powerful enough, and the hard disk is upgradable. There are various programs about for older MacOS versions that will serve things like HTTP and FTP.
Considering I own a Powermac 8500/180, and a classic, I have a (25mhz?)
Quadra 650 (pretty much in-between the previously mentioned machines)
lying around collecting dust. Can anyone suggest some good uses for this
machine? I believe I've got OS 8.1 installed on it - no modem (internal,
maybe but I haven't checked in a while).
The Quadra and Centris 650 are the same apart from the name. Again the hard disk is upgradable to anything 50-pin. The RAM ceiling is something I'm not sure about but it should be high enough to allow decent operation. They make tidy second machines for doodling with when ur primary is busy burning a CD or what-not. it would probably also make a decent server if you can stick it someplace that you can't hear the fan!!
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