The Legacy Mac Addiction
Category: Tech Talk| September 29th, 2008
In May I discovered Ebay. I had been wanting to purchase at least one old Mac to play around with, but ended up like a kid in a candy shop, or, more like a kid in a toy shop. I now own 10 legacy Macs and an old ImageWriter II dot matrix printer. I learned all about bidding and winning on Ebay, while at the same time, I was able to purchase nearly every upgrade available for these machines at a fraction of the original price. Imagine having a machine that, when it was new, went for more than $6,000, in pieces on your kitchen counter, undergoing major surgery. I became so absorbed in this new found hobby that it occupied most of my time for the months of May and June. All but one have network cards and can call up my new Macs’ folders and files. All but 2 can go onto the Web (however awkwardly) over my cable modem. All of my Macs can print to the ImageWriter printer - even my Mac Pro and my Powerbook G4. The Color Classic pictured here has a 10″ Sony Trinitron CRT display, a 256K video RAM upgrade card (for a total of 512k), 12 MB of RAM (but can only read 10), an 80 MB hard drive, and an Asante ethernet card (10Bt). This model has become much sought after and people are bidding on these from all over the world. To be continued…!
As someone who has let music become less important in his life, I really was not drawn to the iPod culture as many of the younger people were. So, when the school began its venture into the world of podcasting, I found myself in possession of this cool little hard drive with a screen that could hold all kinds of data and media. Just as I do with any other new tech toy, I threw myself into it full force. I love to work with video and am a Mac person through and through, and even purchased the iLife suite of software so that I could use Garageband. I like to think that what keeps me vital is being constantly active both mentally and physically. Before long I had explored the basics of the xml feed file and had my