[Noisebridge-discuss] Old ass Mac RAM

[Joel Jaeggli]

Know what era / model is operative...

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On Feb 5, 2011, at 9:17, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 DDR SDRAM laying around unused because its so outdated.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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