Comments | apweiler: It still runs!

apweiler

It still runs!

Feb 16, 2007 22:38

So, I got that old PowerMac in that dumpster-diving adventure in the Physics building a while ago (see here), but all I could find out then was whether it would power up (it did, and gave a lovely Mac chime). Well, guess what I'm typing this on. I recently I gave in and bought a monitor adapter off eBay for £6.50 including shipping, and eventually ( Read more... )

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I can top that. Ish. lionsphil February 17 2007, 11:41:28 UTC

I've got a Macintosh Plus that I rescued from imminent skip-page at University. The helpdesk duo, both techie friends of mine, and one of which whom went to the newly opened Apple Store around here recently wearing his Apple-rainbow-logo shirt becuase that's how long he's been a Mac user, thought it was dead.

The brightness was all the way down. Ahem.

Anyway, it powers on, and displays a disk-and-question-mark, but I have no OS (that's officially downloadable, at least), no keyboard, no mouse, and no network-kipple. And eBum is being the fail for those. Unfortunately, we all just moved building, so a lot of the old stuff just got thrown out. =/