On Nov 17, 5:23 pm, Ashgrove <[email protected]> wrote: > This article has suddenly made me nostalgic: > http://lowendmac.com/musings/myportable.shtml Finally got a powerbook 500 this year upgraded from a 540c and love it, he missed that in this article. (and where was the Kanga with its beautiful picture quality (once through the painful calibration) - but extreme price over $7,000)
> Interestingly enough, these 12-year-old computers are still usable. Very useable (as I always say as long as you respect their limitations): My Wallstreet II I bought last fall has been amazingly helpful. I am afraid it may stay at home though from now on because of my weakening back, I have had to leave it at home all month. I have been triple booting 9.2, 10.2.8, and the a current Ubuntu 10.0LTS and I have 384MB RAM and a good battery. With Pismo out for half the year an late '06 Macbook very very uncomfortable, it has gotten me through. I got it because Kanga lost its Cache and was already too slow for internet even Linux. The Kanga does still work has been doing some stuff at home for me this year, the Wallstreet should help me go further along those lines. I built (compiled) some science software from 1996 in Jaguar that would not build in Tiger, and it runs on Tiger (powerpc). I got into Ubuntu and discovered the new LXDE netbook desktop that really helped make Linux more useable without sapping resources. I found the fast light Links2 browser (formerly a text based browser but updated with mouse/menus and pictures) and built that and used it in Linux and Jaguar and found it very nice for reading purposes (it is really really good at filtering the fluff) I was able somewhat to pick up and continue some work from a few years ago using Perl for text analysis in Jaguar. I learned how to do some more serious kinds of laptop repair and got over nervousness enough to work on my Pismo too (very carefully and slowly) - replacing screen assembly/ hinges and RAM under CPU card. I used my extra old big Wacom drawing tablet in os9 after losing the pen for my mini tablet which I had used with my 540c, and I found that the big tablet with the bigger screen was nice and useable. I was able to otherwise focus on some basic things in Jaguar where the advanced multi-media stuff on the MacBook was distracting me. So all in all something to be grateful for for Thanksgiving I think. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
