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G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 09:25:57 Yesterday, I saw a most hideous sight. It was just outside the door of the MacShack (a used Mac shop near the university). They had gutted a graphite iMac case, turned it on its back and were using it as a trash can! The sight of that beautiful case all full of garbage and coated with grime made me nauseous. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 09:31:44 Ewww. It's not really an abused Mac, but once when walking through the campus I saw an ADB Mouse II sitting on a pole. This was about 5 PM, it could've been there all day... As I passed it, I grabbed it and put it in my coat pocket. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 13:11:10 quote: Ewww. It's not really an abused Mac, but once when walking through the campus I saw an ADB Mouse II sitting on a pole. This was about 5 PM, it could've been there all day... As I passed it, I grabbed it and put it in my coat pocket. lol, why don't i ever find stuff like that laying around? _________________ Leutennant SCCHICAGO HotLine:scchicago.homeip.net Website:http://scchicago.homeip.net Forum: http://scchicago.homeip.net/forum
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 13:51:11 Me niether although people mostly use pcs around here. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 16:31:41 I know people who just toss away old macs... and it seems to be like... FUN for them... that is the most torturous thing ever.... for me at least... :( another torturous thing is when people have elderly macs that should be respected, sitting outside in the hot sun... sometimes it's OK... but usually not Official 68k videographer
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Jan 2003 : 21:43:17 How do you know that that iMac wasn't just one of those empty iMac cases that Apple gives to AASPs? Thats what it probably was. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 05:32:43 Once I bought a Quadra 800 from a flea market that appeared as if it had been dragged across the pavement, face down, for several miles. The curved part of the front was all worn down and had bits of black pavement tar burned into it. Still worked though. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 06:17:45 quote: How do you know that that iMac wasn't just one of those empty iMac cases that Apple gives to AASPs? Thats what it probably was. Warrior maclover5 I sure hope that you are right as that would make the crime less heinous. However, I don't believe that the MacShack sells new Macs, so I doubt they are an AASP. Maybe I should pretend that you are right so I can remove the image from my mind of a poor iMac having its mobo and CRT ripped from it. quote: Once I bought a Quadra 800 from a flea market that appeared as if it had been dragged across the pavement, face down, for several miles. The curved part of the front was all worn down and had bits of black pavement tar burned into it. Still worked though. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division Now that was a truely inspiring liberation -- rescuing the wounded from the clutches of the enemy. Cheers, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 06:39:27 are we considering GoodWill an enemy too? howwabout that RePC place whose "mac guy" I incessantly complain about? I think tha my Q840av (rexcued from that evil man) had to be a liberation... sadly it probably found it's wayback to him when i "recycled" it :shudders: Official 68k videographer
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 06:52:57 quote: are we considering GoodWill an enemy too? howwabout that RePC place whose "mac guy" I incessantly complain about? I think tha my Q840av (rexcued from that evil man) had to be a liberation... sadly it probably found it's wayback to him when i "recycled" it :shudders: Official 68k videographer I would not go so far as to say that places like GoodWill are the "enemy" unless they abuse the Macs to come into their care. To some extent the cluelessness of recyclers works to the 68kMLA's advantage. Places like GoodWill serve two purposes. First, they are an excellent place for die-hard 68k foot soliders to get their Macs. Second, they provide a low cost of entry for new recruits to the Army. The true enemies are those that destroy Macs with malicious glee or fling them into dumspters without giving anyone a chance to adopt an older Mac. Wishing good conquests, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry Edited by - g4from128k on 27 Jan 2003 06:53:36
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 07:00:26 **** and things like THAT are why I should never have given the user "nomacsyet" (same as dukeofthenet2002 BTW) my Performa 578, and my Macintosh SEfdhd... I know TONS of other people who wouldn'tve thrown them literally into the dumpster, and/or they would have offered them bacck! at least before they did that. I am MAD at him still because that 578 had GOOD GUTS... a 300MB HDD, 36 of RAM, and the 40MHz full 040! that machine was very ready to be a server for him like he wanted... or a website design centre, including, but not limited to, webpage design, image editing and writing things... Official 68k videographer
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 15:48:41 quote: **** and things like THAT are why I should never have given the user "nomacsyet" (same as dukeofthenet2002 BTW) my Performa 578, and my Macintosh SEfdhd... I know TONS of other people who wouldn'tve thrown them literally into the dumpster, and/or they would have offered them bacck! at least before they did that. I am MAD at him still because that 578 had GOOD GUTS... a 300MB HDD, 36 of RAM, and the 40MHz full 040! that machine was very ready to be a server for him like he wanted... or a website design centre, including, but not limited to, webpage design, image editing and writing things... Official 68k videographer cringes -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 27 Jan 2003 : 15:55:11 Aye it's a bloody shame our kid shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)

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