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jwally
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on: October 05, 2006, 03:21
It appears that I have achieved "newbie" status - again! Hope here that I don't reveal myself as "newbie" too often within the forum. A little of my history: I became the proud owner of my first Apple, an Apple II circuit board, sometime in the mid 70's. At the time, the only computers in boxes were called things like "Imsai" and "Altair" - if I recall correctly. I built the power supply, added memory chips and a surplus keyboard, and hooked it up through a converter to my portable TV set. It wasn't long though before Steve and Steve caught on and produced their first complete home computer. My first Mac was a plus, and I've owned the SE and SE/30 (still have it, currently as "Mother" to my merry band of Newtons!) and later owned the PowerMac 8100 and 8500. I've also got a couple of OSX boxes on an Airport network as well. My current project started off as an attempt to upgrade the SE/30 to better serve the Newton I use daily in my "day job", and I ran into trouble when trying to install a larger hard drive. Having picked up several gigabyte hard drives on eBay, I was quite disappointed when not one of them was recognized by the SE/30. Having no luck getting any of my acquaintences to format a drive for me, I picked up a PowerMac 8500 on eBay, with the thought that I could use it to format and mount one of these hard drives and then install it in the SE/30. So far, I haven't been able to mount the drives in the 8500 yet, but I am cleaning up some RAM problems with the machine and have hopes that I'll be able to get back to the hard drive problem soon. At present, the 8500 is running OS7.5.5 (to match the SE/30), Hence my interest in "System 7 Today." Whether I'll upgrade from 7.5.5 is more a question of practicality since the "Plan" now is to upgrade the 8500 - max RAM, ATI Radeon 7000, Huge hard drive, and of course wirelessly connect it to the other computers! I will soon be needing to translate a very large database off the Newton, clean it up, and open it up as a Filemaker Pro database. I'm thinking the 8500 will be more up to that task than the SE/30. And besides, I can play Tomb Raider on the 8500! That's a task well beyond the SE/30! See you soon on the other forums |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: November 08, 2006, 09:49
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That was quite an impressive first post! :shock:
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