On 1/2/07, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 1/2/07, Doc Shipley <doc at
mdrconsult.com> wrote:
If you're interested in a Unix-able
Macintosh, a Blue & White G3 is a
really nice box...
If anyone knows where I can get just the case for one of those cheaper
than the whole machine, I'd be interested.
Local freecycle list?
Excellent plan. Also, we have a "FreeGeek" organization (
http://freegeekcolumbus.org/ ) down the street from my house - I was
planning on volunteering with them once I get settled in at home.
They are mostly engaged in recycling Intel boxes for re-donation, so
I'd imagine a trickle of Apple machines passing through with no
obvious disposition.
(assuming you're not at the pole right now :-)
Nope... made it back to Columbus a few days ago. The Southern
Hemisphere was great, and my query to the list did result in meeting
one of the list members and getting a tour of interesting stuff and
storage facilities in the Sydney area ;-)
wouldn't surprise me if there are people who have
migrated hard disk / memory
to later systems and don't know what to do with the leftovers...
Indeed. Really, though, what I was kinda after was a box from a B&W
G3 that had the PSU crap out or the hard drives die and left for dead.
Turns out the motherboard I have is of the right rev to work with an
ATX PSU with one pin removed (-5VDC on the ATX maps to, of all things,
a ground pin on the G3 board, a situation caught by the crowbar
circuit of a decent power supply - pop that pin and, voila, a working
G3).
-ethan