[Ham-Mac] What to do with some old mac's?

[KD5NWA]

Heck, I have a 8600 with a 1 GHz G4 I'm giving away to a friend because I 
have no use for it. I hate to throw it away, but he will use it for HAM use.

At 12:39 PM 5/13/2005, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>As others have said, recycling/trashing them is the best bet. They're too 
>old to be of much practical use (heck, I tried to get our 2 1/2 year old 
>to play with an old Quadra 700, he wouldn't have it, he wanted at least an 
>iMac running OSX ;-)
>
>Most charities won't take such old machines either, usually they refuse 
>486 and lower PCs and non PPC Macs (if they even know what a Mac is). 
>Sometimes you can find a clueless Goodwill store that will accept it, and 
>later come back and find a $200 price tag on it ;-)
>
>If it has a decent sized HD, you could always install MacBSD on it and 
>play around with that.
>
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