>Kevin
>Its been a while but if my memory serves me correctly (no pun or puns
>intended) I found 8.1 to be a good and stable system bearing in mind in
>those days I had an LC 475
> 8.6 gave me no end of trouble. More recently I like Pete, am using a
>Pulsar with a lot more memory but am having problems with 9.1 specifically
>with my internet connection (BT surftime) it is just no good so have moved
>back to 8.6 which works fine for this machine. My advice really is to try
>every thing you can but don't spend your money till you find something that
>works for you. With this in mind if you mail me off list I will loan you my
>discs for your own appraisal. Anything to help.
>Best Regards
>John
>(In Leicestershire}
>Hi Kevin
>
>Like Pete and John I use a Pulsar, running 9.1. However on previous
>experience, 7.6 and 8.1 are probably the two most stable systems I've come
>across. Given the speed of the 6100, I would be very reluctant to upgrade to
>9.1 and would personally stick with 8.1. It lacks the whistles and bells,
>but makes up for it with some balls.
Hi John and Ed,
Coincidental that we have Pulsars. I think it's a great machine for the money - I
paid �400 for mine two years ago and have since installed a cdrw and 80 extra megs of
ram. It already had a ATI XclaimVR card installed with 4 megs of vram and a 4 gig HD
and a 12x Toshiba cd. It runs flawlessly with Matlab 5, Mathematica 4 and Excel all
open at the same time - which is a great boon for me to get formatted data across.
I have to buy more ram though as I'll be moving into gamut mapping in a couple of
months and opening an image in Matlab takes serious memory and maybe a faster
processor.
I have my eye on some 128MB fpm 60ns dimms from across the pond at $45 - eight
would be nice for a gig of ram though beyond my budget at the moment - and maybe run
the Matlab engine from a ram disk. Another for the wish list is a 10000rpm scsi HD or
even 7200 would be an improvement.
Are you on the Umax Supermac/S900 email list from lowendmac?
Pete
PS there's a Pulsar on ebay.co.uk with 380 odd megs of ram onboard.
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