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What to do with my old Mac?

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Titan

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I just don't know what to do with my old Macintosh computer. It's a Performa 550, 33mhz cpu (pre powerPC) upgraded to 20mb of ram and a whopping 160mb hard drive and it has a 2x cd-rom. It's one of those all-in-one units with monitor and comp in one chassis. I used it like 10 years ago for school, when we payed 750 bucks for it.

I don't feel that selling for it more that 50 bucks would be fair to a buyer. I realize depreciation basically makes it worth nothing. I wanna get rid of it, but it has a lot of nostalgia value since I didn't really get into PCs until college. All my old papers from 7th and 8th grade and all of high school are still on it. It has a ton of extensions, when it boots up, it plays Queen "Here we are! Born to be kings!" has cool star trek sounds and when it shuts down it plays Queen "Who wants to live forever." I had nothing spectacular for games but spent much time playing tetris, moria, and beamwars. I had hyperstudio which was some cool stuff. It was truly a "personal computer."

But now it just sits there, taking up space that could be used by usable computers in my lan party. I'm so torn as to what to do with it.

I'm taking suggestions.
 
Back in the day a company made a relay board that would attach to it.
You could control christmas lights with it.
 
Give it to goodwill or your local thrift shop. It might be useless to you but someone less fortunate might be able to use it.

I have the same problem, but mine is an HP9000 HP/UX box the size of a dorm refridgerator - somehow I think Goodwill might have a tough time moving that.
 
Originally posted by: Titan
I just don't know what to do with my old Macintosh computer. It's a Performa 550, 33mhz cpu (pre powerPC) upgraded to 20mb of ram and a whopping 160mb hard drive and it has a 2x cd-rom. It's one of those all-in-one units with monitor and comp in one chassis. I used it like 10 years ago for school, when we payed 750 bucks for it.

I don't feel that selling for it more that 50 bucks would be fair to a buyer. I realize depreciation basically makes it worth nothing. I wanna get rid of it, but it has a lot of nostalgia value since I didn't really get into PCs until college. All my old papers from 7th and 8th grade and all of high school are still on it. It has a ton of extensions, when it boots up, it plays Queen "Here we are! Born to be kings!" has cool star trek sounds and when it shuts down it plays Queen "Who wants to live forever." I had nothing spectacular for games but spent much time playing tetris, moria, and beamwars. I had hyperstudio which was some cool stuff. It was truly a "personal computer."

But now it just sits there, taking up space that could be used by usable computers in my lan party. I'm so torn as to what to do with it.

I'm taking suggestions.
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Install a mac emulation software on your windows box. then transfer all your aps, old school papers, etc. from the mac to the emulation (the transfering of files could be a bit difficult, tho, depending on what type of drives you have access to.) the emulation will be a virtual replication of your trusty beloved old mac. then you can dispose of the mac hardware, or store it away somewhere.

I have an amiga emulation, allowing me to run my fave old games from the Amiga 500 on my windows xp machine.
 
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