[wplug] 2 oldworld Power Macs available to a good home

Neal Sofge neal_sofge at rand.org
Sat Oct 11 00:07:42 EDT 2008


I've got two similar systems (one which once ran Yellow Dog, and one  
with a G3 upgrade).  They have less RAM but more disk.  Contact me  
for details -- the NewtonTalk mailing list was, surprisingly,  
uninterested.


On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Eric Cooper wrote:

> I have a Power Mac 7600/120 and 7600/132 that I was using as
> gateway/firewall machines for several years, but have now retired.
> They used to have a Debian-only install (booting via quik), but their
> disks have been wiped.
>
> They each have between 150M and 200M of RAM, a 1GB (yes, a full
> 1000MB) SCSI hard disk, and 10Mbps Ethernet.  IMO these are too slow
> to do any native development/building; I always cross-compiled their
> kernels on faster machines.  They probably can't run any modern
> desktop environment or browser either.  So they're not for newbies.
>
> Free for pick up in Fox Chapel; if you live somewhere convenient, I
> might even be able to deliver.  Otherwise, they're going to Goodwill.
>
> -- 
> Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u
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Neal Sofge, Lead Web Technologist Emeritus
RAND Corporation <http://www.rand.org/>




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