[oxfordgamers] Re: It Lives, Again

Or BeOS.

> ----------
> From:         John Phillips
> Reply To:     oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent:         Friday, February 21, 2003 12:49 PM
> To:   oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      [oxfordgamers] Re: It Lives, Again
> 
>   If it would make you happier, you could always put a Linux install on
> it.
>                       John
> 
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Chad and Erin Wilson wrote:
> 
> > So, these parent's of one of Erin's friends gives me their old mac,
> Performa
> > 6115CD.  The hard drive was out on it supposedly.  I powered it on, it
> dinged,
> > but nothing.  So I unplugged everything.
> >
> > 2 months pass.  I get an OS 8 CD from Greg.  It turns out that the
> battery on
> > the motherboard is dead and that is why it was having trouble booting.
> It
> > didn't know where to boot FROM.  On a successive power-off/power-on, it
> booted
> > up and I recoved their data.  So, it looks like a new battery will fix
> this
> > computer up fine, and a rebuild of OS 8 on the 500Mb hard drive.
> >
> > Now, I am ashamed to say, I have a functioning Macintosh in my home.
> Again.
> > The other was a PowerBook 5300 I traded to Greg for his armor and
> rattan.  I
> > still believe I got the good end of that trade.
> >
> > That reminds me...Greg, please donate your helm to the shire.  Call it a
> tax
> > write-off since we are a non-profit group.  And that breast plate, too.
> We need
> > all we can get for the new fighters.
> >
> > -w
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad,
> And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad,
> But the gladness of her gladness
> And the sadness of her sadness
> Are as nothing, Charles,
> To the badness of her badness when she's bad.
> 
>                       Sir J.M.Barrie(1860-1937) in
>                       The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays
> 
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