AmesMUG Officers: Meeting tonight - cancelled!

[Brandon Newendorp]

YES
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Brandon Newendorp

On Oct 6, 2006, at 5:04 PM, John Rearick wrote:

> 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
>>
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