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

[Dan Fried]

Robert,

OS X will not install on it at all.

You may need to locate an old Linux ditribution if a compatible edition 
exists at all because it's a very old processor from the days before 
there was a whole lot of interest in Linux outside of the serious geek 
communities.  This Mac was the last of it's processor class and predated 
the first release of Yellow Dog by about 5 years.

-Dan

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>At Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:56:51 -0500 David Spound <dspound at mac.com> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>I'll take it. Hopefully, MacOSX will install on it. One of the things I
>'need' to get is a MacOSX build box -- I can crosss build for
>mess-windows on my Linux box, but it is not possible to cross build for
>MacOSX (under Linux), due to some weirdness with the build tool chain
>and include file weirdness under MacOSX.
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>If MacOSX won't work on it, I know I can install Yellow Dog Linux on it
>(Yellow Dog Linux == a PPC version of Linux).  And I can use it as a PPC
>Linux build box.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>David
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