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iMac G3 SL, Power Mac 6500/300
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You listed the motherboard on LEM Swap?
You wish to throw away the 6500? That's awful.
You wish to throw away the 6500? That's awful.
Let me be clear about the situation here.
I have a local computer recycler. They're good people - a small nonprofit that refurbs and upgrades older machines and gives them to low-income families. They also recycle all their scrap and unusable machines and parts, and a scrap hauler pays them by the pound.
My neighbor was going to donate the entire machine to this local recycler. Because the machine is considered too old, and because the recycler doesn't give the families Macs (or at least doesn't give them pre-OS X Macs), they would have junked the entire machine, dumping it in the scrap pile for their hauler to pick up and pay them. (They might have salvaged the ATA HD, but at only 6GB I doubt even that.)
By taking it off my neighbor's hands, I am able to place the motherboard, CPU, RAM, PCI cards and L2 cache in a good Mac home.
In the near future I'm sure I'll also be able to place the CD drive and HD in good homes. And if past experience holds true, then someone will also want the PSU to revive his/her ailing 6400/6500.
Then I will take the remaining carcass to the local recycler.
At least that way most of the machine will be used, and it will help keep other 6400/6500s from the dumpster.
If I could sell these machines whole - heck, if I could even give them away - then maybe things would be different. But that's not the case in my area, and no one wants to pay for me to ship them a 50 lb. package - these machines aren't as collectible as similarly heavy units like, say, a WGS 9150 or a 9600/350.
So given the economic realities, and given what was going to happen to this machine otherwise, I think I'm doing the best I can.
Best,
Matt
I have a local computer recycler. They're good people - a small nonprofit that refurbs and upgrades older machines and gives them to low-income families. They also recycle all their scrap and unusable machines and parts, and a scrap hauler pays them by the pound.
My neighbor was going to donate the entire machine to this local recycler. Because the machine is considered too old, and because the recycler doesn't give the families Macs (or at least doesn't give them pre-OS X Macs), they would have junked the entire machine, dumping it in the scrap pile for their hauler to pick up and pay them. (They might have salvaged the ATA HD, but at only 6GB I doubt even that.)
By taking it off my neighbor's hands, I am able to place the motherboard, CPU, RAM, PCI cards and L2 cache in a good Mac home.
In the near future I'm sure I'll also be able to place the CD drive and HD in good homes. And if past experience holds true, then someone will also want the PSU to revive his/her ailing 6400/6500.
Then I will take the remaining carcass to the local recycler.
At least that way most of the machine will be used, and it will help keep other 6400/6500s from the dumpster.
If I could sell these machines whole - heck, if I could even give them away - then maybe things would be different. But that's not the case in my area, and no one wants to pay for me to ship them a 50 lb. package - these machines aren't as collectible as similarly heavy units like, say, a WGS 9150 or a 9600/350.
So given the economic realities, and given what was going to happen to this machine otherwise, I think I'm doing the best I can.
Best,
Matt
You're in the US, right?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-Power-Mac-6500-OS-Kybd-mouse-great-con_W0QQitemZ290202168999QQihZ019QQcategoryZ80075QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Power-Mac-6500-225-w-Free-External-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ200197010190QQihZ010QQcategoryZ4607QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Two examples of 6500s that sold where people paid to have them shipped. People will buy 6500s. People on eBay will buy just about anything. I ship LC 550s to freakin' Europe, people pay $170 just on shipping alone. They'll buy it if you offer it.
I apologize if I judged too quickly. It's much better that the parts get taken out and used than thrown away as a whole but - it's even better when the whole can be sold or given to someone.
It's not all about the damn 9150 or 9500/350 or Color Classic or IIfx. I can take commodity LCs and Power Mac 5xxxs that I get for $5 a pallet and sell them and make an appreciative profit off Macs other people throw away or give away - old commodity Macs. Because I actually tried and succeeded. It doesn't work when nobody else tries.
