Mid-Year 1998 Apple Laptop
Last week a customer was referred to me here in Receiving by a Eugene re-use store associate. She was looking for an older laptop that would run the vintage Apple operating system known as OS9.
There was lots of software at home she couldn’t run, and she needed a computer that the kids could use that wouldn’t tie up the only other Mac in the house.
I knew there were Mac laptops slated to go into the store as parts machines. I also knew that the Wallstreet was a sturdy computer. I took a better looking, faster-of-the-lot one and refurbished it. And this one had a battery that held a charge for nearly an hour. Maybe more.
It has a bright, clear 14 inch color screen. It has one of the most-liked keyboards in the industry. It came with dial-up and networking capabilities built-in. It can run OS X, one of Apple’s most modern operating systems with the right RAM and hard drive size. Overall, given the price requirements and end-use needs, it was the perfect choice!
It went home with the delighted customer just two days later. And I was happy as well. Another “save”. Another re-use opportunity fulfilled. Another old Mac out in the wild again doing it’s duty nearly 12 years after being made. Yeah. How it really oughtta be….
