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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (12298)4/28/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213177
 
Currently old 386's are mainly used for anchoring small craft in medium seas. What
are old Macs good for??


You mean besides the many still in use? You can make a fishtank out of the old Mac Plus style Macs. I've got the instructions archived away somewhere...



To: Bill Jackson who wrote (12298)4/28/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: WebDrone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213177
 
<Currently old 386's are mainly used for anchoring small craft in medium seas. What are old Macs good for??>

My 8 Mhz Mac SE still works great for composing on and controlling my MIDI synthesizers, and beats me routinely at the Chessmaster! Still useful, making fun.

Richard



To: Bill Jackson who wrote (12298)4/28/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: David Semoreson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213177
 
*OT* for Bill Jackson

The question was: is "refresh timing error" hardware? The "drive type mismatch" was for the floppies not the hard drive.

>Currently old 386's are mainly used for anchoring small craft in
>medium seas. What are old Macs good for??

Ive got a stack of 386/486 at my office - useless. But the old Macs are good for anything that doesn't need speed. Just fine for wp, excel4.0, email. Even has a modern GUI.

** David