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When it rains it pours - PowerPCs

reco2011 said:
What are you doing with all of these older systems?
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Lots of different things. One thing is I use them to teach younger children how to install operating systems, programs, etc. Then let them take them home and keep them.

My 11-year-old daughter knows how to install RAM, hard drives, video cards, etc. because of working on old computers. She has also learned to trouble shoot because of this. She sorts out RAM by type and size, then tests them out using a machine she knows to be good. She has her own "bench testing" station.

PowerPC's like the eMacs still can serve a purpose, like surfing the web, watching DVD's, etc. My daughter's 5-year-old half-sister has a G5 with Cinema monitor that she uses, daily. I put a dozen shortcuts on the desktop, hid the Safari address bar and she can use it to go to great kids sites with games.

Recently, we gave an eMac to an 80-year-old woman. It has iLife '09 on it and she only uses it to store and look at photos. A lot of photos! Having never used a computer in her life, she quickly adapted to being able to search for photos. Her family mails her CD's or DVD's and she loads them up.
 
Very cool. It's nice to see you're sending them back out in the wild where they can be used.
 
They are still quality computers that people paid good money for. Unfortunately, all the attention goes to newer Intel Macs and some top of the line G5s.
 
My thinking is pad or no pad I would not necessarily want one of the Macs on the bottom row.

Those Macs are supporting the weight of the pallets and the other Macs stacked on top of them. That's constant downward pressure that can't be good. The cases were never designed to take that kind of stress.

I may be wrong, but that's just my thinking here.
 
eyoungren said:
My thinking is pad or no pad I would not necessarily want one of the Macs on the bottom row.

Those Macs are supporting the weight of the pallets and the other Macs stacked on top of them. That's constant downward pressure that can't be good. The cases were never designed to take that kind of stress.

I may be wrong, but that's just my thinking here.
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Very true. Those bottom eMacs are supporting over 1,200 pounds and the only thing holding those up is the white eMac shell. They don't have any metal bracing over the back of them. If the shell breaks or flexes too much, it'll push on the electron gun of the CRT and cause an implosion.
 
Intell said:
Very true. Those bottom eMacs are supporting over 1,200 pounds and the only thing holding those up is the white eMac shell. They don't have any metal bracing over the back of them. If the shell breaks or flexes too much, it'll push on the electron gun of the CRT and cause an implosion.
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However, the weight is distributed amongst 6 computers.
 
MisterKeeks said:
However, the weight is distributed amongst 6 computers.
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OK. So assuming even distribution, that's 200lbs of weight being born by each eMac shell.

I don't know about you, but if I had an eMac I wouldn't want to put the equivalent of 200lbs of weights on top of it.
 
Just imagine the Xgrid possibilities.

But yeah. It would be nice to just walk into a cache of Quicksilvers once or twice!
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I wish I could find pallets of G5s sitting around.
 
They are no longer on pallets like that. I'm afraid that I am far less organized than the previous owner who had them stored like that. None of them seemed damaged. We powered up many of the eMacs last weekend and they didn't show any signs of physical damage to the cases. Maybe they are more robust than we think.
 
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