After setting a Dell on fire the other day, we contemplated other ways to destroy an old computer. After wild ideas like using a car to run them over, dropping them off of a roof, power tools, napalm, etc. we figured it was time to go back to basics. A sixteen pound sledgehammer is perfect for smashing things, plain and simple.
Today’s victim was an Apple eMac. These short-lived educational-use behemoths were plagued with video chipset issues, and this one is no exception. No amount of IT support could bring this back, it needed a whole new logic board. Of course, even in that case it’s held back by a wimpy 1 GHZ PowerPC processor and a paltry 128 megs of RAM. Woof. It’s HAMMER TIME! Check out the video…