>note that mr. goolsbee's 2400/320 has an astonishingly fast boot time in
>my experience, even when compared to a g4 desktop machine running 9.x.
>perhaps he could mention the hard drive he's using...
'astonishingly fast?' Hmmm. Maybe. I'd consider that about tolerable!
I'm running 8.6, so that helps a lot. I have yet to run 9.x on any
machines of mine. I will next week though as digital.forest is
finally making me succumb to the will of my office mates and have the
ability to run Excel (to sign off my staff's timesheets). I've been
(and will continue) avoiding installing and Microsoft stuff on my
*personal* machine (the 2400) since I *hate* having all that
extraneous bloatware tossed into my system folder! Shed all that
stuff and maybe you can boot faster too! Anyway they're dropping a
G4 on my desk.... guess I'll have to find a new home for the 3 NeXT
boxen: <http://www.rackhenge.net/images/chucksdesk.jpeg>
To answer your question I have an IBM travelstar 4 gig ata drive. I
can't recall what version of drive setup I used to pave it with....
'Get info' says "v3.2.1" on it if that helps. I bought this drive
since it was the largest I could get that still allowed for the
scsi-dick-mode thing. I have it partitioned in two (2.7 gig & 1 gig).
The only non-apple extensions I run are:
Vpower (for my G3 cache cycling)
drivers for my Farallon enet and skyline cards
Libmoto
PageUp/Down
PGP
SoundJam
Timbuktu
Gamma
SpellCatcher (<-Rocks! Evan Gross is my hero! This is the bit
of software I have run continuously since System 6, when
it was Thunder... and before that I think 'MacLightning' (?)
I can't even remember that far back!)
The above is all I desire and require. I like to keep the system
folder as lean as possible. The rest are applications. I use the 2400
for Eudora, telnet, icab & netscrape, Photoshop, WebStar Admin,
BBEdit, CAMEDIA (for my Olympus Camera's 'panorama' feature), Fetch,
MacTicker, SkyGazer & Voyager (cool apps from Carina, along with
heavens-above.com keep me busy when the sun goes down), Street Atlas
USA with an Eartmate GPS, WhatRoute, QuarkXpress, Apeiron, Strategic
Conquest, Marathon, Snood, FreeHand 3 (heh, still use it), and
SoundJam. All these apps get used at least one a week, and several of
them every day.
--chuck goolsbee
head geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>
list mom, mac-mgrs mailing list, <http://www.mac-mgrs.org>
dad, errand boy, reluctant webmaster, the goolsbee's, <http://www.goolsbee.org>
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