AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
- Subject: AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:33:03 -0400
Greetings ...
Can anyone think of a good reason to keep the LAST
two remaining OS 9.5 beige Macs operating ???
The last two reasons we kept these machines running was
* reading floppies and SCSII media, Zips and SyQuest
* unlocking iTunes music using SoundJam.
Society has evolved way beyond locked music, so there's
no longer a reason to keep SoundJam running to unlock
iTunes music -- and the 'clients' files on the media
have been either been modernized, or the clients are
out of business, retired or dead.
I've sent close to 2,000 diskettes and 37 SyQuest carts
to recycling, or the land fill. (Actually many were
used for target shooting!)
As we try to clean out this facility to sell, I'm
running across so many relics of a by-gone computer
world. What to keep and what to toss is a dilemma.
What do you do with 40 years of accumulated stuff???
:-)
thanks
Fred
Some of you may remember my pick-up load of Macs
at the loading dock
http://www.graphic-design.com/60-seconds/2007_images/mac_good-bye_800.jpg
http://www.graphic-design.com/60-seconds/good-bye-old-mac
PS: If you know of any entity that may need these
machines for a good use, let me know.
One is a G3 with USB/Firewire card.
Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher
* User Group Info Manager ...... <http://www.uugnn.com>
Weekly online column since 1994
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