A mountain of old Macs

[Lincoln Peters]

I just discovered that in the microscope lab at RCHS, there is a table at 
the edge of the room that is piled with old Macintosh LC's piled on it, as 
well as at least one Apple IIgs.  Nobody has been able to explain them, so 
I'm guessing that they got so outdated that they weren't very useful anymore 
(?), but nobody knew what to do with them.  Now, everyone has either a Dell 
or a newer Macintosh (an iMac or a G3; I've heard rumors that someone has 
G4's, but I've never seen them), and I'm still looking for soemone who would 
take Isildur (the donated Linux workstation).

I'm trying to think of something useful to do with them, and I remember that 
Debian supports the m68k architecture.  Isn't that what the old Macintoshes 
use?  Has anyone ever tried running Linux on an old Macintosh?  I'm guessing 
that if they could run Linux, they could do almost anything that a Linux 
system with similar Intel-based hardware could do.


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