five thousand shades of blue
Monday, December 09, 2002
practically a dinosaur
I remember when I got
that computer. It was January of 1996 and it was the absolute, top of the line, latest PowerMac, which boasted supreme upgradeability and possibilities for expansion. I did install a Zip drive (now removed), a Jaz drive (also removed), a larger 6 gig hard drive, and a CD-RW (capable of writing at speeds up to 6X, woo!). I even upgraded the daughtercard so it would have a processor faster than 120mHz.
However... the greater the demand that software programs make on the memory and processor, and the more I use my becoming-ancient clamshell iBook, the more it becomes obvious that the 9500 is now Really Old™. Sure, I suppose I could keep cobbling together upgrades, but these things are getting harder and harder to find, and what I can find sure isn't worth the asking price (I mean, that 6 gig hard drive was the largest I could find, and it was almost $200).
Weekend before last, I backed everything off of the larger hard drive, the 6 gig, which has acted weird for some time, anyway. Norton Speed Disk constantly claimed there was a problem with the drive but Disk Doctor could never find anything wrong with it. Lately, it's been making noises a hard drive should not make. I'll probably take it out altogether. I may put the Jaz drive back in and see if I can recover anything at all off of the disk that died. I had my life's work on that disk, which is one of the reason I nuked it and got the CD writer instead.
I took the 17" monitor off of my desk this weekend and set up a little bit of a docking station for the iBook, with the USB hub to hook up the full keyboard and tablet, and kick-ass speakers. Seems I should actually have room to use the computer I use the most. The box is still down on the floor, and in theory I should be able to connect to the 9500 via ethernet, but for some godforsaken reason I can't make them communicate (they have in the past). I'm thinking about selling the 9500 in the hopes to get enough money for a new hard drive for the iBook. It's a 6 gig-er too, rapidly filling fast, and definitely not big enough to install OS X.
Someday: a new screaming dual processor G4 or better, with a flat monitor and DVD burner.
Someday.
is
this just not enough…?
