16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
7:34 a.m.
Classic Mac
collecting really is dirt cheap except for the oddball exotic
pieces (CC, TAM, TV). It's rewarding, too, what you can do with it; there's a
lot of places blowing used and NOS stuff out by the cartload, and much of
it is still really useful and practical for small servers, even a backup
workstation.
How hard/expensive is it to get NOS Apple Extended II ADB keyboards? Once I switch to the Mac Pro I'll have to decide
if I setup a Classic
Mac to run a couple apps (there is no replacement for me for
ClarisDraw aka MacDraw), or if I run them under an emulator). I've
stayed at 10.4.11 so I can continue to run Classic.
That's pretty much where I am. I think there are quite a few people who
won't update past Tiger for the same reason. I would be surprised if Apple
kept releasing security patches, though. Steve Jobs has shown a remarkable
penchant for rapidly jettisoning the past, which is as always good and bad.
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