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Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!!

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A Quadra is a more powerful workhorse or server, a II-series is more expandable and usually more powerful.

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Edited by - FireWire is fast on 27 Nov 2001 17:02:31

I'd have to agree with all of the above. Most 030' are very expandable and there's lots of scope. With the LC475/Q605 for example you have a choice between hmmmmmm one slot, or one slot. Which means you either get ethernet or a second monitor.

I once owned a IIci with two ethernet cards (although I never got them both working simultaneously), a 2nd monitor, FPU and 17MB RAM. That's pretty good for a IIci! But having said that, I just can't deal with anything slower than an 040. It's too slow and painful and makes me smoke too much while I'm waiting for something to happen. My 475 is my favourite, but I had a lot of fun with my C650- I had three monitors at one stage! Anyhow, nowadays I'm mostly using PC's or my 8600/G3, or the Dual G4 at work (which I must say is a very nice machine but it has equal quirks to any other Macintosh!).

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It's too slow and painful and makes me smoke too much while I'm waiting for something to happen.

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Like I stated elsewhere, in 1991 the LC IIs were the top computer in the Mac lab at my college, they were excellent. I used MS Word, of the time, on them, it wasn't much differnt then today's version of Word (less annoying features) and it would be a good Word Processor or use it for Excel.

There is soooo much software for the 68K Macs, and it doesn't all run on newer Macs. There was a great sound lab, you could take a voice and add echo, lengthen the sound, add reverb, ect. We made our beagle sound like the hound of the baskervilles... quite eerie actually.

Do a seach under "old Mac software" or "68k software"

The original arcade games Defender and Joust had Mac versions made around 1994 or so.

I mentioned the other things before, indexable storage, phone answering machine, home controller, etc.

If fact, it just now hit me that I have been trying to get a friend in another state on email with her family PC, but she doesn't know how. So I can send her a Pizza box Mac with a MAC to PC display adapter, all set up free email, or her local ISP, and all she has to do is hook it up to the phone line.

And yet a few more ideas for pizza box Macs

The nice thing is alot of programs for these older Macs are now freeware, you can get fun programs you normally wouldn't pay for:
Search the web, there are tons of old programs for Mac IIs. Things you never thought of, audio shapers, turn your computer into a systhesizer, heart monitors, ect, ect,

Keep your kids, nephews, ect, off YOUR computer, give them a Mac II as their own computer

If you have old floppies and no drive on your new computer...

A garage computer. I got this idea from the local Ford dealership. They have older computers for the mechanics to look up things, so the new office computers don't get dirty.

Should be to use a webcam and save pictures every few minute or so, good for home monitoring or security. Or record sounds.

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