Regular Mac Triage

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On the left is the GRAPHITE BLUE (or "dull" blue) Macintosh and the BRIGHT BLUE (or "candy" colored) Macintosh. On The Right is a G4 Quicksilver Mac.

Old Mac Keeper List

• Apple II series

• Pre-PowerPC Macs:
  • Macs w/ 9" CRTs
  • Mac II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx
  • All Mac LC models
  • Centris 650
  • All Performa BUT 630
  • All Quadra BUT 630
  • Mac Portable

• First-Generation PowerPC:
  • 8600
  • 9600

What to do with them

Keepers

Take the system to Macland incoming area.

No Keeper label is required

Recyclers

Open the system. (This can be tricky on beige macs,)

Pull the Hard Drive

Pull the RAM

Pull PCMCIA AirPort Wireless Card

Put a REASON FOR RECYCLE label on it.

Circle RED LIGHT.

Write OLD MAC on the label.

Have an instructor tally the system

Take the system to the warehouse system recycling area

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