Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 02:11:03 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Old Macs Are Still Great

Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better

This tidbit is from:

Mike Pilgrim

The submission from Greg Francis from EvangeList #1061 about using a 6500
to replace the Unix DNS/Mail server which died prompted me to send this
note. Our company has been using QuickMail LAN for in-house e-mail for
several years between two locations, one in Silicon Valley and the other
in Texas. But as our volume of business from clients on the net increased
we decided to bring up full internet standards e-mail for everyone on the
network.

Last fall we got approval to get a 256K Frame Relay line installed
(yeah!). Our network in the Texas office is ALL Mac. Even our AutoCAD
designer uses a PC card in his 8500, so needless to say I was looking for
a Mac solution. The problem was that so late in the budget year we did
not have any funds to allocate to a new e-mail server. Bummer. A quick
call to our MIS guy in California revealed that there was an old SE-30
gathering dust which we could transfer to my office. I upgraded to a
larger spare hard drive, increased the RAM to 20MB using spare SIMMS and
loaded Sytem 7.5.3. We now had a 10 year old Mac with a recent OS and
sufficient RAM at ZERO cost other than one hour of time!

Now that SE-30 which has seen a LOT of use over the last 10 years is
running the free Eudora SMTP/POP server for 10 local staff, 16 outside
sales persons and since we have two domains it is also acting as a mail
auto-forwarder for 100 headquarters staff so mail misaddressed to our
domain is automatically and painlessly sent to the correct recipient in
the California domain. The Mac advantage is that, in a pinch, the oldest
harware can be pressed into faithful service. Try that with your old 286
machine :-).