This Gopherhole is dedicated to old pre-Intel Macintosh computers and system software, specifically System 7 through Mac OS 9. Its purpose is to reach old computers that have difficulty using web browsers. Old computers and equipment should be rescued in the event that they are encountered in any waste environment, even if they are going to be e-recycled, or have their components separated and reused. The reason for this is because a certain amount of everything is made, and over time, they are thrown out or recycled, and if we just let that happen, then they will eventually all go out of existence, and there will be no more of them. ************************************************************* SAVE/RESCUE AS MANY OLD COMPUTERS, MONITORS, ETC. AS YOU CAN! ************************************************************* There is no reason to intentionally cut off old computers from continuing to be useful. A Motorola 68K Macintosh from the 1980s or early 1990s can still be productive long into the future. They also have a lot of software available for free. You can type and print letters, check email, visit websites, listen to music, record and edit movies and music, graphic design, manage finances, create electronic schematics, and more, just like when the computer was new. I often use my orange "clamshell" iBook with a 300 MHz G3 CPU, with a 40 GB hard drive, and 576 MB of RAM. It's running Mac OS 8.6, which is also the Mac OS version it originally shipped with. I also use a Power Macintosh 7200/75, upgraded with a 400 MHz Sonnet Crescendo PowerPC G3 PCI processor accelerator card. I also installed a Sonnet Tempo Trio PCI card which adds two ATA drive slots that emulate SCSI support, and it also adds two firewire 400 ports, as well as two USB 2 ports. I currently have a 6.8 GB ATA hard drive from an iMac G3 installed in my 7200/75. I have that configured into three relatively equally-sized partitions. On two of those, I have installed the operating systems, and I left the third partition available for future use. I have System 7.5.3 and Mac OS 8.6 installed on it. I usually use System 7. I also have a 160 GB ATA hard drive installed, on which I keep my files. Both hard drives are connected to the Tempo Trio. It currently has 72 MB of RAM installed, but I plan to upgrade to 896 MB of RAM. It has four RAM slots on the logic board (motherboard), and three RAM slots on the processor accelerator card. I also have a 256 KB Level 2 cache module installed. It has 1 MB of video RAM built onto the logic board, and it features three VRAM slots for a total of 1 MB of VRAM per slot, for a maximum capacity of 4 MB of video RAM. I ordered two 1 MB VRAM modules, and I plan to order a third one. They can be installed in pairs to interleave them and increase the video performance.