Is it worth keeping 1st Power Macs going?

[Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com]

It's been years since the last posting to this group. I would like to get feedback: Is it worthwhile keeping 1st Power Macs running or has it run its course?

Daniel Knight, listmom

[Owen O'Neill]

Hi Dan,

I was surprised to see a message from this group! The reason I still
want to be connected with people is for potential help with a personal
project. There is some old animation software that I was making a
movie on, and it will only run correct in System 7.1.2 or earlier.

UntiI it caught fire in 2008 I was using a 6100/60AV for this with
272Mb of Ram. I have most of what I need to rebuild that. Then I have
a HD I need to rescue, too, without a system folder and have had
various trouble doing that.(This wasn't a 'pseudo' project either, I
was making a pretty good cartoon on software from 1991, worked on it
for years because it was kind of stuck in the format and originally I
just had it and knew of nothing better to use at least that I could
afford)

Owen

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[Owen O'Neill]

Other than that, have they run their course IDK. I don't know if
anyone is tied to software for some thing they want to finish or
preserve at least. All I've got is somewhat low quality video copy of
the animation.

[ANdrei]

I'm also waiting to find some spare time to rebuild a couple of Power Macs for my collection. When I come to that, the group might be of help if I get stuck :)

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com <lowe...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's been years since the last posting to this group. I would like to get feedback: Is it worthwhile keeping 1st Power Macs running or has it run its course?

Daniel Knight, listmom

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[Gabriel Rezende]

It's almost working.

The server it's ready. A bridge between Sierra and System 7, Mac 8, 9  with Label support and Dropbox backup, without using a Windows protocol, no third-apps (no Connectix DoubleTalk), just a Linux server and netatalk.

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The next step is to run on a raspiberry pi and provide USB storage support via server.​

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Gabriel Rezende <g...@brielrezen.de> wrote:

Hi Dan, depends I guess. Do you have a project or something?

​About a month ago I​

 bought a PowerMac 6230CD

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A bought a ethernet card, and just wanna write stuff and have a cloud backup (using a raspberrypi network on wifi), and use a USB hub on raspberrypi and share the portable storage to the network. I will "hide" the raspberrypi inside the machine, if possible.

So, my plan is a 22-year-old Mac with wifi and USB (data storage).

​ 😁​

​I think it's worth it, hehe.

Gabriel.​

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com <lowe...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's been years since the last posting to this group. I would like to get feedback: Is it worthwhile keeping 1st Power Macs running or has it run its course?

Daniel Knight, listmom

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