[Hidden-tech] Any use for a "vintage" Macintosh?

[David Spound]

Hi all,

I am ready to retire my 1995 Power Macintosh 7500. That would be a ³G1²,
although Apple did not start using the ³G² designation until the G3 came
out.

It works fine. It has a whopping 96 megabytes of RAM and two internal hard
disk drives (one gigabyte and 4 gigabytes). It has 10Base-T ethernet, a
floppy disk drive, and a CD-ROM drive. I added a USB port via an expansion
card. It includes the Apple Extended Keyboard and an Apple Mouse (ADB). I am
not offering a monitor. Any VGA monitor will work (there is an adapter that
connects VGA to the old Apple Video port), and I have used monitors as large
as 20².

A bit of local history: This is the computer on which I created
gazettenet.com when I worked for the Daily Hampshire Gazette back in 1996.
The Gazette had no internet access at that time and did not own any
internet-capable PCs. I brought in this computer with a modem and we used my
dial-up JavaNet account while I was first developing the site.

In its day, this computer was considered powerful. In comparison to my new
MacBook Pro laptop, it seems like quite the antique. But it still works
(with Mac OS 9) and can run older versions of Microsoft Office and a few web
browsers.

My options are to find someone for whom an older computer would be useful or
to send it to Apple¹s computer recycling center (at Apple¹s expense). So if
anyone has a use for it, please let me know.

David

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