On 25 May 2005, at 23:58, NODEraser wrote:
It absolutely makes me sick, to think of what people are throwing away
these days... Probably even G4's and other new equipment, besides old
stuff that's still perfectly useable.
The current thing seems to be disposing of G3 stock that is no longer
'useable' becuase OS X has moved on so far that it's not percieved to
really any longer feasible to use it day in day out on a G3 machine.
In the dumpster with it all...
In my opinion it's sick, and stupid. There are people out there who
don't have a computer, and want one but don't have the cash. Give
them a nice shiny G3 B&W with a 10GB hard disk and OS 9.2, Eudora and
a copy of AppleWorks 6 and they are set to go. Some people simply
don't NEED power. The trouble is no-one takes the time to think about
it cause it doesn't make money, or so they think...
As for the old 68ks, I'm sure many a person here will tell you many
of them are as good for e-mail and word processing stuff as any G5
supercomputer, after all the limiting factor is not the machine when
typing it's the users fingers and brain :o)
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