It actually still worked. At least long enough to make a copy of the contents of the drive (Mac OS 9.2.2). None of which is really usable on a modern Intel based Mac. (I do have an old PowerBook that should be able to run the stuff… hmm…)

And then, probably thanks to way too much iced coffee while watching 2 episodes of Doctor Who, I took it apart, down to its component parts. Not sure what I’m going to do with the pieces. The 6GB EIDE hard drive? I don’t have anything it’ll work with. Or the CD-ROM drive. The RAM? Nothing the sims will go in. I think I’ll keep the case and throw out the guts. Maybe keep the CRT? Nah… I bet I can find an LCF that’ll fit inside the case.

We’ll see. Might make a nice project for that week between Christmas and New Years.

For the small sum of $4K maxed out (16GB memory, 2Tb HD) (Yikes! )

I think Apple needs to stop checking my credit rating whenever I buy something from iTS. Because this? Not gonna happen. I got an iPhone this summer instead of a new Mac (and my MacBook is still good for a couple more years.)