AmesMUG Officers: Meeting tonight - cancelled!

[John Rearick]

Travis, one of our old Alums is offering us a G5 if we want it.  It  
seems to have some problems with video, but other than that it seems  
like a good machine.  Do we want it?

John

Travis wrote:
> It runs headless now, I'm just worried about OS upgrades.  For  
> instance, I don't know how you would install OS X Server on this  
> machine.  Yeah, you could swithc the harddrives between machines,  
> but that is a pain and you might not want that for your (suppose to  
> be dependable) server.  Also, in the future, it might be a pain to  
> upgrade headless to 10.5.  And this machine could never get an  
> official repair, if that ever needed to happen.
>
> Just trying to outline the concerns.  Let me know what the club says.
>
> Travis
>
> p.s.  btw, I tried a PC video card in it and didn't get anything,  
> but it could also be just because it wasn't a Mac card.  I know  
> sometimes there are still mac-specific versions.


On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Brandon Newendorp wrote:

> Okay, so there isn't a whole lot of need for us to meet tonight.   
> I'll be out of town, and people probably have midterms and such.   
> So, see you all next week.
> --
> Brandon Newendorp
>