[Noisebridge-discuss] Old ass Mac RAM

[Michael Shiloh]

laptop or tower? i have a bunch of ram from towers, and i have a couple 
of old laptops on my junk drawer. i have no idea of their ram situation, 
but you are welcome to all.

units are in berkeley, i could bring to san francisco.

m

On 02/04/2011 10:55 PM, Gescykae Welz wrote:
> Hello Noisebridgers,
>
> I have been very reluctant to post this for a while because I feel
> awkward panhandling on the list but here goes. I have an old Mac with
> a PowerPC processor and believe it or not I've been able to keep it
> running for sometime now. It hasn't been easy. I've taken it apart a
> few times and done some interesting hacks to keep it alive. I have not
> done this out of some strange obsession with vintage gear but out of
> necessity, this is my only machine. Well I just found out from
> experience that these machines have a hardware issue where their lower
> RAM slot completely loses its connection with the logic board. The
> only fix is to replace the entire logic board which would be a waste
> of money on such a machine especially to just have the same issue
> happen again. The machine originally came with a gig of RAM but now
> with the lower slot out it now has 512 megs. It still runs but very
> slowly and spends about half its time awake with a spinning beach ball
> of death even just running Firefox.
>
> I am hoping that some kind Noisebridger may have a single gig stick of
> DDR SDRAM laying around unused because its so outdated. Just hoping. I
> would even probably be able to pay a little bit of money for it. You
> see, I'm unemployed right now and kind of down and out. I've been
> trying to create a website for my mother's business and my time has
> been spent unproductively waiting for my machine to "think". I'm also
> trying to put together some of my film school footage to get my video
> production portfolio worked out and Final Cut barely goes.
>
> I do realize this post has nothing to do with hacking and it's a kind
> of a pathetic plea for help but who knows, maybe someone has this RAM
> laying around. It would go to a good cause, a jobless single parent
> trying to get their feet on the ground. Also, I do use my machine for
> hacking too so I suppose it's slightly related to hacking. The Arduino
> IDE barely runs now as well.
>
> If you have one of these 1G sticks you could part with you could
> contact me off list and I would love you forever:
> welzart at yahoo.com
>
> Sincerely,
> Gescykae Welz
> 'Jessica'
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