For cheap or free

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We have some stuff that we're getting rid of 'round the office.

Powermac 7200/90. Oooooh. Big. Beige. Slow. Snap up this baby before anyone else does! Please. Please, take it away.

Mac G3 desktop with monitor. Also big, beige, and slow, but not as much. Need a bridge between your zippy new machine and your floppy disks? This is your man.

APS DAT drive. For all your tape backups!

Intel pro/100+ Adapter. Still in box in cellophane.

HP Laserjet IIP. As far as I know, it works.


Also might have copies of Filemaker Pro and a vintage laptop or two, I'll keep you posted.

Also, purely hypothetically, if you had a huge pile of tape backups that you saw no good reason to keep, how would you destroy them?

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[oliverx.livejournal.com]

I might have a use for the G3. What's the CPU speed?

Backups: someone's probably going to say "a big magnet". But it takes a surprisingly big magnet (think lifting cars) to accomplish the task with modern tapes. And it can't simply be a big magnet, it has to alternate polarity, aka a "degausser".

Most people run them through industrial shredders that grind them down into itty bitty pieces.

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It starts up but gives the lovely little question mark, so I can't check. It's a powerPC.... 400mHz?

[(Anonymous)]

400 millihertz? Shame on you, Killa.

I'm afraid question mark on boot probably makes it more trouble than it's worth.