as much as i hate it, more and more i’m using ‘net speak. i’ve always hated typing the word “probably” for some strange reason, so it’s easy to understand my taking to the stortcut “prolly” i’ve seen so prevelant on the ‘net. oh well… guess that’s just as bad as using all lower case and emoticons! i’ll prolly cause my old grammer teacher a heart attack!

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i’ve recently aquired two old macs… a performa 638cd (with tv tuner and a/v inputs - aka quadra 630) and a powermac 5200/75. this is in addition to a mac ii/ci that i picked up at hamvention two years ago as a $15 paper weight.

when i get a digital camera i’ll post real pics. for now you’ll have to settle for one snagged from the web…

well, the performa booted up fine. 20 megs ram and pretty speedy for an old sucker. no network card, though. now i’ve got another tv!

the 5200 has some crappy login/authentication/desktop thing called macadministrator from hi-resolution software. i haven’t been able to hack that one yet - prolly just yank the drive since it’s just ide.

and the mac ii is back from the dead! our ceo is a mac user from the old days and had system 7 lying around. once i found out that you have to use a multi-scan monitor, the “?” appeared. then i popped in the disk tools floppy and presto! new life for the puppy! it’s got a nic - 10base2 - so i gotta find some drivers. turn it into a little web server or something. i heard that system 6 is faster on old machines and free from apple so i need to find that link.

don’t know what to do with ‘em… anyone got ideas? webservers? mkLinux?

looks like the tv card and a/v card will work in the powermac, so i might focus on the powermac.

low tech is cool… i dig these old machines and their history.

kudos to my brother for snagging the performa and 5200 from potential death. the school he works for was sending them to the trash! i’m fixing up a pc he snagged as well. it’s just a k6 something, but for simple surfing should suit him fine, being as it’s free and all!

also, don’t think i posted that we installed os x on our two beige powermac g3’s at the office a few weeks ago. i’ll dig almost anything with unix as the core, but the gui’s not bad either - a lot of eye candy, but still cool. that was an interesting experience and i learned a lot about mac hardware and pram, etc. (mainly had issues installing from a 700mb cdr disc. had to reburn it on a standard 650mb disc so the mac cd drive would read it properly. i tried installing a newer cdrom drive but mac’s don’t like certain cdrom drives even if it’s just ide - strange!)

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i think the intellectual content of my posts has dropped as my frequency of posting has! i’ll try harder…

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