This past Sunday I got an Apple Macintosh G3 Tower from my father. He got it somewhere free and did not want it so I got to take it and ponder on the madness that is Apple Corp. While the processor is not that high on the Megahertz arena the operating system came up pretty quickly. It was also a relatively recent version of MacOS being version 8.5. I have a Mac monitor, keyboard, and mouse so I hooked it up and the thing came to life. It seemed to work for a while then all of a sudden the system would freeze up. After a few times of that the hard drive gave up the ghost and I was left with a system that had everything going for it but the main drive. I plan on replacing it soon and the computer can handle up to 384Megs of RAM which I plan to exploit. As I am waiting to get a hold of MacOS 8.x, 9.x, or 10.x I might just install the PowerPC version of Linux and also try my hand at one of the BSD Unixes. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Although, the fact that I have a Weblog means I do have enough time to ramble. Later…
Nov 03