There's some old Mac Classics i found at a thrift store. I considered buying them just to have them plugged in all the time, but would there be any point?
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Anonymous2005-05-29 22:58
Other than nostalgia or software with specific requirements, no.
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Anonymous2005-05-30 0:14
Put a Mac Mini inside it. Use an LCD screen to replace the CRT
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Christy McJesus!DcbLlAZi7U2005-05-30 7:19
My office still uses iMacs running versions of the OS ranging between 8.5 - 9.0. I wanted to take them all home and build a Beowulf, but the dumbass IT guys (they really are dumb) decided they wanted to try to sell them on eBay. Faggots.
"Put a Mac Mini inside it. Use an LCD screen to replace the CRT"
Genius idea. I'd do it.
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Anonymous2005-05-30 16:05
I've used ZTerm on a Mac Plus to make it into a dumb-term for IRC...
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Anonymous2005-06-03 0:34
Load OpenBSD on them if there's ethernet hardware for them and you have really crappy servers!
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Anonymous2005-06-03 0:37
Load OpenBSD on them if there's ethernet hardware for them and you have really crappy servers!
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Anonymous2005-06-13 7:44
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Learn how to program them of course! It's always a fun (and good) experience to try different frameworks and libraries. The problem is to get CodeWarrior or whatever they use on old Macs...
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Anonymous2005-06-17 22:26
The mac mini is a bitching Idea
Get one with 512mb of ram, and throw it in. My friends and I did it with a powerPC for a project.
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Mac hardware /doesn't/ have the same ram requirements in Linux as OSX. I've got an iBook G4 w/ 256MB, and it 'never' touches its swapfile, even though it's running a full GNOME/Ubuntu desktop. However the Finder in OSX will happily ask for more than 512MB when just copying several files across a network.
I've been a NetBSD user since my desktop only had 8MB of RAM... to watch a 'unix' system like OSX be so retarded with memory is just unbelievable.
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Anonymous2005-06-28 8:34
osx is a gui which lies on top of freebsd which lies of top of a mach "microkernel"