Last weekend was pretty busy for me and my SE/30. I went to Office Max to buy an ink cartridge for my HP printer, as it was low on ink (OT, I apologize) While I was there I was going to pick up a box or two of floppy disks. The clerk asked if he could help me find something and I told him I was looking for floppies. His response was "Duh! you're looking right at them" After a few sentences of us verbally abusing each other I left to go to Office Depot to buy my printer ink and disks.
This guy (an anti-"switcher" that is quite helpful to me) got me the stuff I needed and asked what else I needed. I said I was going to look at the furniture to look for a new desk to put my old mac on. He said they had a great sale on one brand, but he had other customers in his department and apologized for not being allowed to go show them to me. I went over and looked and found the perfect desk for my SE/30, and as an added bonus it had a shelf below the keyboard that would hold my latest project, a 7300 (OT again!) and the desktop was large enough to hold the SE/30 and the monitor. After spending a little time assembling and an hour or so looking in my shed for a few screws that would replace the ones the kit was missing, I had the perfect desk. That is untill I started to put things on it. On my old desk that was almost exactly twice as wide as a compact Mac, I had the SE/30 on top of an external HD and off to the side I had a SyQuest drive with my modem on top of it. Since this new desk is 6" or so taller than the old desk, I didn't want the external HD beneath my SE/30, as the screen would be up higher than eye level while I sit in my chair. And there isn't enough room for the SE/30, the monitor for my 7300, and the two external devices on this desk. My solution was to pull the drive out of the external case, and put it in the SE/30. My SE/30 now has 20M RAM, a 1 G HD, and an ethernet card inside of it. The SyQuest drive fits perfectly on this little CD shelf beneath the keyboard drawer once I removed the CD rack. It's almost like that shelf was made for it. I only have about 3/4" of extra width and about 1 1/2" between the top of the drive and the drawer. So my little hour trip to the office supply store turned out costing me about $70 more than I was supposed to spend (that's nothing new) and about 6 hours of my time. But this room looks a bit nicer than it did before and my 7300 isn't on a TV tray begging to be dumped over anymore. Moral of the story: Never buy printer cartridges, as the one I bought that day is still in its box, as are the floppies I bought. J White Buy American S.O.S. Save Our Steel -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
