Clearing out a lot of old surplus junk this week, and my local recycler is going to be the beneficiary. I have to pay him, it’s so bad.
- gateway PC, ca. 1993 (a raging 233 MHz)
- PowerMac 9500, ca. 1995 (identically fast)
- 17 inch display
- 15 inch display
- assorted keyboards
- a logic board I picked up and never used
- some old disk drives and CD drives.
[cost me $36.50 to get rid of this $%^&. Apple branded monitors cost extra to get rid of, apparently, so the 17 inch Studio Display separated me from $15.]
Trying to sell an old G3 iMac on Craigslist, without a lot of optimism, even for a tenth of what it cost 7 years ago. I figured the kids might use it, but they prefer the G5 iMac (not that I blame them) and I like them using it where I can see ’em.
Keeping, for now, an old ThinkPad with a good DVD drive, as a way to play DVDs, if nothing else. I scraped it clean and applied the restore CD today, but I may put Ubuntu on it just to see if that makes better use of it than Win2K.
[Ubuntu won’t install on the ThinkPad, as there is a risk of overwriting the serial eeprom, according to an error displayed, just before the process gives up and hangs.]