Saturday, October 20, 2007
today was a bit sad
Saturday, October 20, 2007 
Packing for a move is certainly never fun. But today was especially hard. We've been packing things for a while now, but today I put many Macs and Apple computers out in the yard to await their sleepy fate. Each of them served me very well and are in working condition. I even have spare power supplies for the Apple ][! But alas, even though we'll have a lot more room in the new house, these friends don't need to make the trip.
I almost want to take some pictures. Apple ][. ][+, ][c, ][gs, 128k Mac, Mac Classic, a bunch of G4s and G5s, a Performa, and some eMates. Its sad, but they take up a lot of room and I never turn them on. Its been cool to know they were in the basement sleeping, more than capable of answering their master's call. But I have a shiny new MacPro that can outperform all of them combined, so it was time to thin the herd down to a more manageable size. As they enjoy some night air, and they are about to go to that landfill and disappear into the obscurity of anonymous history, they know that they are loved and simply need to call it a fine, fine series of boot cycles. Thank you guys.
I almost want to take some pictures. Apple ][. ][+, ][c, ][gs, 128k Mac, Mac Classic, a bunch of G4s and G5s, a Performa, and some eMates. Its sad, but they take up a lot of room and I never turn them on. Its been cool to know they were in the basement sleeping, more than capable of answering their master's call. But I have a shiny new MacPro that can outperform all of them combined, so it was time to thin the herd down to a more manageable size. As they enjoy some night air, and they are about to go to that landfill and disappear into the obscurity of anonymous history, they know that they are loved and simply need to call it a fine, fine series of boot cycles. Thank you guys.
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Duncan said...“I'd bet you have a recycling center in your area that will take those off your hands, rather than sending them to the landfill. We have one in Pittsburgh that we recently took a bunch of old PC's from work to.
http://www.constructionjunction.org/
Granted yours sound ancient, but there are also groups that will take machines and put them to good use in schools and what not.
Just a thought.
Good luck with the move.”
