25 Oct
2000
25 Oct
'00
3:21 p.m.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:46:09 -0700
From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: Classic Macs
I guess maybe you didn't follow the Web links.
My god! I thoought I was a fanatic with my Commodore computers! I
figure the next thing is to get I-Mac or Cube guts into one of those... (=))
Hmm. I wonder what one could do with an original PET... nah... but If
I had a C65 motherboard... nah.
These guys have upgraded the Color Classic to Power
Mac G3 CPUs and lots of bells and whistles.
Hey, Sam! Hot Rodded Classics? Best speed, or best flame paint job? ;>
If you have access to the New York Times, see the
Thursday, August 24, 2000 national edition page D8
for an article entitled: "A Long-Discontinued
Macintosh Still Thrills Collectors to the Core."
Not quite classic by this mailing list standards,
but, as I said, truly CLASSIC.
Dave
P.S. You probably want to volunteer to "retire" those
Color Classics from work into your collection.
Bought with government funds, removing those from inventory takes a bit
of work... :/
Larry Anderson wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:01:37 -0700
> > From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com>
> > Subject: Re: old MAC's
> >
> > Some of these aren't truly "classic" yet (<10 years),
> > but it's looking like the Color Classic is really a
> > CLASSIC. If you want to really get carried away with
> > older Macs, see about the Color Classic at
> > http://home.hkstar.com/~patrickn/colorclassic/
> >
> > Dave
>
> We have a couple Color Classics at work a max of 10 megs RAM and 16mghz
> speed makes it mighty slow (even with the MicroMac Accelerators)...
>
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