FREE - partially broken eMac

[Peter Dobratz]

I've got an eMac (2004 vintage) up for grabs.  While running OS X, the
display would crash intermittently (Open GL stuff like screen savers and
iTunes visualization would trigger this very quickly).  I think that I may
have exceeded the 95 degree maximum operating temp on occasion in these hot
NH summers.  Odd thing is that while the display was frozen, you could still
ssh into it (there might have been a way to restart the display server, but
I never dove into the OS X internals enough to trouble shoot it).  But the
display crashing happens frequently enough to render OS X useless.  So at
one point, I thought I would try Linux to see if it would work.  I managed
to get Ubuntu 6.10 (PowerPC) installed and with some tweaking of the Xorg
config file and some oddball binary install for the wireless network card
driver, it seemed to be actually somewhat usable for web browsing and the
like.  At some point, I did a apt-get dist upgrade and then ran into the
symptoms of this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/153599

In other words, X doesn't work any more, and to cut to the chase, the ratio
of my free time to tinker with this stuff and my lack of desk space is
causing me to offer this free to the first taker on the list.  You get:

1 partially broken eMac (note: this weighs 50 pounds)
1 Apple keyboard (the all white kind)
1 Apple 'mighty' mouse
1 vintage Apple mouse pad

Pick up at my house in Derry.  Email me off list.

Thanks,
Peter
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