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[torvan]

My old MDD bit the dust with multiple issues--first the onboard sound failed, then both the 33 and 66 IDE ports failed, leaving me with just the 100. Then the fans failed, replaced those, and evidently did not cool the machine enough-leaving it cold as a body buried last century.

Saw this less powerful MDD on Craigslist and grabbed it (the old one was a dual 1.25. this is a single 1Ghz)--$20. Seller was less than a mile from me.

Spent the last two days getting 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 installed, then copying over all the music (107.52 GB) and video (344 GB) and documents (5 GB) onto my 1 TB SATA connected to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.

All this has taken two days (I have ADHD and it was not exactly top priority for me) but now I can celebrate all the apps are installed and the media added to iTunes (yeah, I know there are others, but iTunes works for me) on both 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 (two seperate partitions with the Media partition).

So I can now say "whew" and casually install Games when I play them. Now maybe I can move this to my office now, and get my dining room cleared. I know my husband Jason would love it if I did---then the ethernet cable is not stretched down the hallway and across the living room (the switch is in the office).  . .

The next project is taking my eMac and doing the same thing to it! But I will have to wait a couple days to do that--since Jason has the next two days off, I try to make him the center of my attention.

[IIO]

this $20 Seller was less than a mile from me is what i call the perfect specs for a computer. but what did need two days to install MacOS?

[torvan]

Honestly? OS 9.2.2. and X, then in 9.2.2 unzipping and installing 54 applications, moving all the data (we are talking hundreds of gigabytes) across the network, then in X installing 16 more apps, then on OS9.2.2 installing 43 games from CD/DVD and 8 games in OSX.

Plus I have to eat, and work too.

Not to mention once I make dinner and Jason comes home, all work on it halts until the next day.

[IIO]

Plus I have to eat

like i always say ... "why dont  you eat on front of the screen like normal people?" ...

[dr bu]

Plus I have to eat

like i always say ... "why dont  you eat on front of the screen like normal people?" ...

right, IIO actually mistook my trombone for lunch about 2 years ago. this while garyN developed a rash.
 
me yesterday worked all day fixing notboot Pismo, supported by the Ti; came out sucessful 
 
today i did not what i was supposed to do, instead failed at ripping a wonderful documentary about Coleman in '66 doing a soundtrack for a film: "Who's Crazy"..guess its copy protected.÷

[IIO]

"not now jason, daddy has to copy another 745 exabytes of ego shooters to his performa 5300"

[IIO]

i sucessfully got my third screen back today. 160 centimeters of custom sequencer sofware in my living room.

[mrhappy]

i sucessfully got my third screen back today. 160 centimeters of custom sequencer sofware in my living room.

WOW... you could have dinner for 4 in front of that thing!!

[FdB]

At that size, even I could see it.