Good Day, My name is Keith Pendlebury. I am new to the group as of today. I found the group by chance from a link at Low End Macs. Please forgive me if I break any rules here. This is the first group I have ever been a part of and I tend to write letters.
I live in a tiny community of 130 people in south central British Columbia, Canada. I own 2 Macs a C500 603e 200 Mhz bought new (to replace a 630 that was absolutely fried by a power spike) and just last week - a G3 WallStreet. I am physically disabled from failed back surgery 10 years ago and don't work in the traditional sense. I do internet and library research to help people with health problems that the doctors don't seem to help much with. I don't charge for my efforts. I love my SuperMac. Of the 5 Macs I have owned it has been the easiest to use, had zero problems and has been a pure delight. I operate system 8.6 and have upgraded to 144 MB of Ram and 17" screen. I bought the Wallstreet because I go to peoples homes to show them the medical research I have found and the pictures about what is happening to the heart or nerves or whatever. I am 55 and most of them are my age or older and seeing something is much better for them than just being told. It is a lot cheaper to use the computer that than to print out everything with the cost of ink cartridges. I got the Wallstreet used and in superb condition with a new battery and floppy, CD and Zip drives for $1000 Can. I feel it was a very good buy. The C500 is my main machine and I download what I put together for people onto a 100MB Zip disk and off I go. Because I am so isolated, literally and figuratively, I know of no one else that has one of these machines and I also don't have any local advice as to programs I might use to maintain it or enhance it. One of my children sat on the 2 CD's I received when I bought it new in 1998 and so those aren't usable. The bits and bytes on the hard drive are probably a real mess. I would appreciate any advice you can provide. I get a small disability pension. It took me almost 3 years to save up for the G3. I don't make enough to qualify for a credit card - probably a blessing. I am looking for anything I can do to keep this machine working fine, any programs I can use to be more effective in any way help people who are sick and in pain get better. I used to be a printer and so cut and paste was what I grew up with. I don't do anything fancy but I try and get the message across. My only concerns at this moment are the hard drive and the size of the System folder. The hard drive has run a lot of hours in the last 4 years and I don't know how to check it out for problems or unreliability. I am getting crashes but these could also be from the programs. The system folder is over 400 MB and that seems huge to me. The System Suitcase is just over 11 MB and I don't know how to get rid of stuff that I don't need and I can't tell what extensions or preferences etc relate to what. I have a SCSI Dock adapter that came with the G3 that I am told I should be able to hook up to the Supermac and use to download the entire contents of the hard drive onto the G3 (6GBHard Drive on it) and then I could reload everything onto the SuperMac to start from scratch. Any recommendations about that? I really dislike having anything on the computer that isn't necessary. I have good quality programs Adobe Acrobat 4 AppleWorks - seems to run way slow ClarisWorks ran a lot faster. Claris Home Page 3- Use it for presentations about diseases. Beautiful program. Eudora 5 PageMaker 6.5 - a gift - upgrade from PM 3 Photoshop 5.5 LE - a freebie Quicktime 5 I use Internet Explorer 5 as my browser because I can't figure out how to easily download and work with web pages and sites with Netscape. I keep my hard drive clean from games and junk programs and have 700 MB free on a 1.9 GB hard drive. That is where I am at for now. Any suggestions? Regards Keith Pendlebury -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
