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Turbo

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Look what I just bought on eBay!

A year-old 1.04 GHz iMac G4
17" display
512 MB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive
DVD-R/CD-RW Superdrive
Airport wireless 802.11g card
Mac OS X Panther

price: $1056 including shipping. That's almost exactly half of what I was ready to pay for a 20" iMac G5.

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Poly

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So, Knight triumphs.

We kept trying to tell you to "use the force, Turbo, use the force!!!"

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Here's what it will be replacing:

  • A seven-year-old 266 MHz Pentium II Gateway2000
  • 17" (15.9 viewable) Vivitron CRT that has been on it's last leg for at least a couple years.
  • 64 MB RAM
  • 6 GB Hard Drive partitioned into three 2-GB drives (remember those days?) plus a 20 GB that I added later. They're all full.
  • CD-Rom Drive that doesn't always work. Sometime punching it helps, though. :boxing:
  • Windows98
 
One Eyed Jack

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Say, Turbo -- I have an old 68030-based Mac laptop. I think it's running OS version 6 or thereabouts. The screen is black and white, and it's roughly the speed of an old 386. Do you know of any decent software I can run on this thing?
 
One Eyed Jack

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Originally posted by granite1010

Abandon hope, Jack. Upgrade!
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It's not my main computer by any means -- I have about seven others that work, but it's one of only two laptops. I just think it would be nifty to put it to some good use. Right now all it's really good for is taking notes.
 
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I know I'm not Turbo, but...

I know I'm not Turbo, but...

Originally posted by One Eyed Jack

Say, Turbo -- I have an old 68030-based Mac laptop. I think it's running OS version 6 or thereabouts. The screen is black and white, and it's roughly the speed of an old 386. Do you know of any decent software I can run on this thing?
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Click the penguin and win a free OS. -->
 
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Turbo

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Originally posted by One Eyed Jack

Say, Turbo -- I have an old 68030-based Mac laptop. I think it's running OS version 6 or thereabouts. The screen is black and white, and it's roughly the speed of an old 386. Do you know of any decent software I can run on this thing?
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Didn't you see my link to Scarab of Ra?

Seriously, I haven't used a Mac since high school. We got a Macintosh Plus in 1988. It had a tiny black and white screen, but it looked a lot better than the amber or green on black displays that were common at the time. And it was a lot easier to use.

Then in 1996 I got a Gateway2000 when I went off to college. I looked into getting a Mac, but they seemed more expensive at that time. A year later I got another Gateway2000 and my parents took the year-old tower with the new monitor. And as of today I'm still using that 7-year-old tower with the 8-year-old monitor.

So I was raised in a Mac home, but when I went off to college I fell away for several years. But now I see the error of my ways.
 
Poly

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Originally posted by Turbo

....but it looked a lot better than the amber or green on black displays that were common at the time. And it was a lot easier to use.
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:ha:

I remember taking computer in High School. Man I thought we were "Big Time". :eek:
 
the Sibbie

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Originally posted by Poly

:ha:

I remember taking computer in High School. Man I thought we were "Big Time". :eek:
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I came out of high school with very little computer skills. I barely knew what computer programming was and it didn't cross my mind to take a programming course. Majoring in EE in college, I had to keep up or choke on the dust! :eek:
 
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Originally posted by the Sibbie

I came out of high school with very little computer skills.
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Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. You know, like numchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...
 
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