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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Thanks Alan, |
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> > Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only |
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> > 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the |
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> > drives and then do new installs from scratch. |
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> 8G drives!!!!!!!!!! Wow, that comes from the previous millenium.... |
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> Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office |
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> sounded like it had a Boeing in it taking off!) and I thought they were |
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> old. Now it looks like a young spring chicken in comparison... |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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I obtained, free of charge, an iMac G3 (400 mhz?) with a 1 GB of RAM |
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installed about 6 months ago. About a year ago, I got a free Compaq mini |
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tower with a regular cd-rom, 64 MB of PC100 RAM (1 stick), but 4 MB had to |
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be dedicated to video (could dedicate 2, 4, or 8). I took it to my work for |
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a project (my manager couldn't get approved to use a PC for this manner), |
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installed 2 256 MB PC133 sticks a coworker gave me that he had in the trunk |
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of his car from cleaning out his storage. It's running Gentoo with a 10 GB |
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hard drive. No GUI, but eh, who needs that? Runs like a champ. |
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- Mark Shields |
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