Re: AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
Re: AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
- Subject: Re: AUGD: QUESTION : Ending an Era OS/9
- From: Dennis Wurster <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:35:12 -0400
People who like to keep their 9" macs alive often need an 'in-betweener' mac that can download software from the web, and write it to floppy disks. *Especially* if it can write to 720k (low density) floppies. Beige macs were nice because they had ethernet built-in. That made them easy to connect to a modern network.
I'll admit that IDE drives are becoming harder to find (The local Best Buy only has one line of them in stock anymore).
I'm still a big fan of the SE/30, but getting software for it is becoming harder, as people are throwing out their old floppy stash.
I'm getting ready to show off my Mac Plus this weekend at BarCamp. I just need an imagewriter and a copy of Print Shop to make some banners on fan-feed paper. The college kids will have their minds blown.
--Dennis
On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:33 AM, email@hidden wrote:
> 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
>
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