68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...

[Brad H]

Man I remember when the Cube came out.. I saw one on display at an Apple store with 23 inch Cinema display.  Man I wanted one badly.  But wayyyy too much money.  Definitely want one for my collection.  Probably not too expensive now.


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-------- Original message --------
From: George Rachor <george.rachor at gmail.com> 
Date: 2016-09-11  8:09 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
Subject: Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use... 

My wife and I purchased the G4 cube, monitor, as well as enhanced sound package.  It’s primary  purchase was using it as a music server and some games.  My wife was working with Apple II e’s and very early Mac’s at the time.

Over time I had to replace a failing hard drive.

I retired it last week as I couldn’t put a modern browser on it.  The last few years I used it for only music.

Retire means I’m packing it up to put in a dust proof container and placed in storage.

Not looking to get rid of it but will obviously will someday.

Not really vintage but it has served a long and happy life.

George Rachor

Hillsboro, Oregon

george at rachors.com




> On Sep 11, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
> 
> What do you mean by “retired,” and what kind of setup did you have for it?
> 
>  -- Chris
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 11:10 AM, George Rachor <george.rachor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I just retired my G4 cube (still working).  Replaced it with a NOT NEW iMac.
>> 
>> George Rachor
>> george at rachors.com <mailto:george at rachors.com>
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 7:16 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30456459#p30456459
>>> 
>>> Found via:
>>> 
>>> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-do-some-mac-users-still-rely-on-16-year-old-software/
>>> 
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>> 
>