Mac G4 - FREE!

DaveWT

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Early days yet - still gathering info.
A friend will be getting rid of her old Mac G4 tower. What I haven't confirmed yet is how much ram, how big a hard drive and what version of operating system it currently has. But it will be FREE and come with a display and mouse (but no keyboard.)
One complication is that she no longer has the OS on a disc so it will be difficult to get her stuff off safely and leave an operating OS on the machine. I am curious if anyone in the group has a disc with some flavour of OS 10 on it that you could lend for this process? I believe the machine can support up to 10.5.8

And before she goes to too much effort down this path, does anyone have a use for this machine when cleaned off? The case alone would make some wonderful sculpture.

Dave

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DaveWT

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Yes, that is certainly the way to dispose of it easily, but my friend is hoping someone can find a use for it rather than just disposing of it.
 

chas_m

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I would imagine that anyone wanting to put a machine of that vintage back to work will want to replace the HD with an SSD anyway, so it is probably best to sell it without the hard drive -- that way the owner is 100 percent certain that no personal information falls into anyone else's hands.
 

DaveWT

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Yes, an excellent point, but that gets back to the original dilemma of needing to find a source for a suitable version of the OS. Of course maybe someone can think of a use for that beautiful case. It would make a nice display cabinet, picnic hamper or bedside table.
 
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