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[bob AT purple.ils.unc.edu]

Thanks for the fast feedback. I just took a quick look on ebay and they've 
got a used one for $10. Even with $45 for UPS ground shipping, that's on the 
order of half price, right? I don't think I'm going to take the plunge.

---Bob.


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:16:52AM -0400, Dan Caugherty wrote:
> 
> On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 08:44 AM, bob AT purple.ils.unc.edu wrote:
> 
> > Greetings, all. This morning I saw a Mac Workgroup Server 8550/132, 
> > unused,
> > on sale for $99. I wondered whether anyone had an opinion whether it's 
> > worth
> > it, just for something to monkey around with at home. It's got, I 
> > think,
> > 16MB RAM, 2GB SCSI hard drive, 4x CD-ROM, ships with OS 7.5.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Well, there's my .sig; that counts as a thought, right? 8-)
> 
> As for the Mac.. well, about 12 months ago I sold my
> lowly PowerCenter Pro 180 (a Mac clone), even after a
> G3 upgrade, hard drive upgrade, etc. etc.  I tormented
> it by making it a dual-boot LinuxPPC/MacOS box as well,
> until I gave up and bought a cheap G4 Cube for MacOS X.
> 
> Chances are, you're thinking of using this puppy either as
> a cheap networking appliance (router, print server) or just
> another applications platform.  For the former, you'll be
> better off buying a cheap Intel box for Linux IMO.
> Nonetheless, as a LinuxPPC or YellowDog Linux platform, this is
> an interesting idea -- tho' I see more DIMMs & a larger
> drive in your future if you do it, hence my reservations.
> 
> As for the latter, and using it as a "classic" MacOS box --
> well, why?  Do you have legacy Mac apps you can't part with?
> The Classic MacOS was not l33t as operating systems go,
> UI notwithstanding.  (The only thing I use "Classic" for is
> Quicken, and that's only because I'm too cheap to buy the
> latest version.)  And even if this machine could boot
> MacOS X, it would be sssllooowww.
> 
> My $.02: pass it up unless you can't find a better bargain.
> 
> 
> l8r,
> 
> 
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