[SunRescue] OT, scored a great Mac!

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue May 29 09:49:50 CDT 2001


Put AU/X on the thing.  Then you can run your mac applications and Gnome
in glorious 1bit color (from what I've seen, gnome is actually decent in
1bit mode) at the same time.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 29 May 2001, James Fogg wrote:

> This doesn't usuall happen to me, but I just scored a great compact Macintosh
> for cheap dough.
> 
> On the theory that church sales get good donations (cause everyone knows what
> you donated and you cough up goodies to avoid embarassment), I went to one in my
> town this weekend. They had a complete Mac SE/30 and color StyleWriter Pro for
> $50.00. I walked away with it for $25.00. It even has respectable memory (20
> megs), the internal "superdrive" floppy and a 40 meg fixed drive.
> 
> It boots, has good screen and has system 7.something (not latest) installed.
> There is also a radius card (no monitor). If anyone in the North East has a
> Radius monitor they would part with, let me know. Too bad the previous owner (a
> local bank) deleted all the software.
> 
> I love good examples of ground-breaking technology. This little baby changed
> the world.
> 
> PS.. though tempting, I don't think I'll run Linux on it (unless I have trouble
> getting user software).
> 
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