SillyDog701

by **allen-uk** » Sun 18 Feb, 2007 9:08 am

Hello all.

Shortly (weeks, hopefully), my beige 1997 G3 and all associated bits (comprising screen, CPU, keyboard, printer, zip drive, zip discs, etc) will be going spare.

So is there anyone within driving distance of north London who wants to give it a good home?

Or is there a market for it (you never know!)

Thoughts welcomed.

Allen, N.London.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.17; Mac_PowerPC)

by **Antony** » Sun 18 Feb, 2007 10:11 pm

Before you getting rid of it, can you take a photo of the beige G3, and show it to us?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3

by **allen-uk** » Mon 19 Feb, 2007 3:15 am

With difficulty.

One of the reasons I've upgraded to the iMac is that it's almost impossible to get digital camera peripherals to run with OS8.6, hence I've still got my old 35mm film SLR (blimey, that's old).

So, I will be buying a digital camera in a few weeks, but would like to wave goodbye to the G3 before that as we have very little space....

Why do you want a picture, by the way?

Allen.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02

by **Antony** » Mon 19 Feb, 2007 6:52 am

allen-uk wrote:Why do you want a picture, by the way?

It's always interesting to see photos of old machines.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

by **allen-uk** » Mon 19 Feb, 2007 7:33 am

Great! Museum pieces, are we now?

As soon as I've got access to my new/ new iMac, I'll stick a picture of me on the site, as being very old (if not a machine).

A.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02

by **Edward** » Sat 03 Mar, 2007 6:47 pm

A couple of years back, I put together my old Pentium (1) system,. circa 1997 and it still runs well with Mandriva Linux.

Only the motherboard is original from 1997, everything else, case, power supply, RAM, drives, monitor, etc. are more recent.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

by **allen-uk** » Sun 04 Mar, 2007 4:25 am

I stuck the package on 'Freecycle' for London, and first in the queue was a girl who had a G3 and no monitor, so she's taking the lot.

Well, actually when I say first in the queue, there wasn't any queue, only her, but I was pleased that it went to a good home rather than on the rubbish dump.

Allen.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2

by **Edward** » Sun 04 Mar, 2007 8:53 am

It is good that new homes can be found for computers.

Several years back when I finally got rid of the older Commodore computers I had, I brought them all down to the local Salvation Army thrift store. A week later, I went by there, and everything was gone, someone bought it all!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

by **allen-uk** » Sun 04 Mar, 2007 9:31 am

That's good, Edward.

The Freecycle sites are okay, but I am always a bit wary of those ads that say 'Poor student looking for fully functional modern digital video camera to complete coursework, please help', as you are never sure whether this actually is a poor student or whether your video camera will quickly find its way onto eBay.

I do take most of my surplus gear to the Oxfam shop instead, but with the G3 and all the bits, I wanted to reach a larger audience.

Allen.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2

by **allen-uk** » Sat 10 Mar, 2007 4:09 am

The girl who said she wanted the screen failed to show up to collect it, and the rest of the gear.

So, back to the first post.

Anybody within driving distance of NW London who wants a G3 and bits is welcome to come and get it, free of charge, just email me at the address below and we'll sort it out...

You get a G3 CPU 160Mb RAM, USB cards, 17inch monitor, keyboard, etc., cables, programs incl. Quark, Photoshop, Appleworks, hundreds of fonts; Astra scanner (USB.1); Epson 850 Stylus Printer and spare inks; Zip disc drive and a dozen discs; phone modem. All bagged up and ready to take away absolutely FREE of charge!

Get me on:

email removed by Antony

Been working fine for ten years, still goes without any problems. Just needed more spare in my tiny flat.
So..

Hurry, hurry, there might be a queue.

Allen, London.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2

by **Antony** » Tue 13 Mar, 2007 3:59 am

Printer related discussion has been split to [sdt=13129]the thread[/sdt] under General Computing and Tech.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

SillyDog701

G3 and bits going cheep

G3 and bits going cheep

Who is online