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25 Feb 2004

Last week I mentioned that I wanted to acquire an older Mac for some testing. Tom Ransom from One Big Idea emailed to say that he has a clone PowerPC 604 that he wasn’t using. And the price was right. I’m paying $10 for shipping and Tom’s giving me the Mac. He’s even throwing in some accessories like a USB card. Tom’s my hero.

Hopefully with that USB card I’ll be able to add the Mac to my KVM switch (or maybe upgrade to a 4 port USB KVM) and not clutter my desk with another keyboard and monitor.

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