Legacy hardware: Who is still using their old buddies?

[politicat]

We have an old PPC Mac that runs 9.1 and Yellow Dog. That's our old man of the mountain because we didn't have the space for the old MacTV that ran 8.6 or the IIci that ran 7.5.1.

These machines live forever.... we can't be the only legacy users out there....

[demodonkey]

1. Powerbook 1400 166mhz & OS 8.6 here. But I REALLY need a newer laptop...

...desperately. Anybody have a white ibook 12" they want to sell cheap?

Cons of the 1400: This one is so slow that it literally takes 3-5 minutes to click on a web page. Also no ethernet (so I can't print at Kinko's), no USB, no Airport... so it is getting hard to connect things. And I need a new clock battery, also the computer won't mount its CD drive or swappable floppy drive anymore.

Pros of this old workhorse: Great keyboard, great screen with no dead pixels after all these years, nice design with removable/changable cover, main battery STILL holds at least a 30 min charge, and it is a good solid computer.

[politicat]

2. Does your PCMCIA slot work?

1400s can run a PCMCIA wireless card....

It's not perfect, but it would get you wireless....

[demodonkey]

5. Yes but I can't find a card that I am sure will work...

also what cards I find are $80-100 which would be a nice chunk of change toward a newer ibook...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. You CAN'T HAVE my 12" iBook

The only disadvantage I have found is that when I recently had to translate a PDF of a page of advertising, I had to keep sliding the PDF around and changing its size to get a reasonable view.

At such times, I long for a 17" Powerbook.

By the way, using this iBook (my second, after I traded in my conversation piece of an early 2000 clamshell iBook that still worked fine but was too heavy to lug around Japan) has made me a confirmed laptop user. I could never go back to using a desktop model.

[cheezus]

8. PB 1400 with a g3/217 upgrade card

64mb of ram and an 802.11b card

battery hasn't held a charge for YEARS

web browsing is tolerable using iCab.

it sits on a bookshelf in the livingroom doing a slideshow (which i had the "c" screen), and occasional websurfing

[Poiuyt]

3. Laserwriter 4/600 on my Mini

Apple used to make really great laser printers. I still have mine and have an adapter that alows me to still use it.

I also have a Powerbook 1400, but I don't use it much. Only if I want to do some word processing outside.

[Richard Steele]

6. 3 in working condition at the moment:

Performa 6214CD
Powermac7500
And the apparently-popular 1400c laptop.

We also looked into connecting the 1400 to other things,
but eventually decided to buy a $10 pcmia adapter
so it can read & write to CompactFlash cards.
Cheap solution, since I already had the cards for my camera.

The other two are mostly used for GAMES at the moment;
some of the great classics just won't work on new machines.

I recommend my favorite "AbandonWare" site:
http://mac.the-underdogs.org/index.php

[NYC Liberal]

7. Even though I use my PowerBook (1GHz)

I still have my old LC 575 from way back when. It still works perfectly! Don't use it too often, but I have it.

[cheezus]

9. B&W G3

does print serving and apache/mysql