Geez! Trade em some more modern hardware for what
you want/need. I've
been giving away lots of Mac IICi's for the last 2 years now, since
the university here keeps throwing em away. Another department here
has been trying to sell mac IICi's for $15 each, and it doesnt look like
they are selling em at that price.
Where are you located? I wouldn't mind getting one of those Macs. My
church has also been looking for a couple old Macs for their education
center, since there's a Mac guru that goes to my church (anyone need System
7.5 or System 7.5.x updates??)
Minneapolis. Apple has released system 7.5.5 on their web site recently.
I dont have many monitors, and those would be difficult/expensive
to ship. But I have several base units, and i can upgrade them to
250 meg hard drives and fill em with 1 meg simms easily enough (8 meg
total).
2 summers ago we had 2 large stacks of these in the hallway, eventually the
janitor took em all and sold em to some company. I have at least 3 I
could trade away for interesting old stuff. I never expected to collect
Macs anyways, but they seem to fall into my lap...
Old sun workstations are also easy for me to come by. There will probably
be a few sparc 1's and 2's tossed this summer, as well as SLC and ELC's
of course. And who lmows, one of these days we may start tossing better
stuff like the IPX's.
There's a VT100 in the hallway right now. Some jerk went by and
cutoff the keyboard cable for some assnine reason, probably thought
it was a stereo jack on the end...
Oh yeah, and there will be 2 apple imagewriters tossed this summer.
-Lawrence LeMay
lemay(a)cs.umn.edu (University of Minnesota, Computer Science Dept)