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[madialex]

Looks like the forum is up and running again. Thanks for all the hard work Tboy

[Possum]

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Ditto here, can't have been fun. I had a fun computer experience 6 months ago, discovered my constant Mac problems were due to bad RAM that'd been in there years, than to top that off the main drive only 6 months old just up and died one day. I had to buy a new iMac to get back online quickly. Fortunately had been doing backups religiously so lost very little.....

[soundmasterg]

Thanks for all the hard work Tboy!

Greg

[SonnyW]

Thumbs Up!

+1 from me. Thanks Tboy! In my day job I am an IT guy so I know how frustrating these things can be and how much stress it puts on a person while a server is down. Mostly I just lurk here and don't post much, but I really missed it while it was down.

[ake]

Thanks Tboy.

[David Schwab]

Ditto here, can't have been fun. I had a fun computer experience 6 months ago, discovered my constant Mac problems were due to bad RAM that'd been in there years, than to top that off the main drive only 6 months old just up and died one day. I had to buy a new iMac to get back online quickly. Fortunately had been doing backups religiously so lost very little.....

You know when Apple releases OS updates, it very often has issues with third party RAM that isn't quite up to spec.

When I upgraded to Leopard I had to swap out some RAM that was causing kernel panics. That same RAM worked fine for years.

Was that a G5 that had the hardrive fail? Apple must have gotten a bad batch of drives. At my old job we had a brand new G5 and within three months the drive was giving S.M.A.R.T. warnings. I think it was a Maxtor drive, but I forget. They wanted us to send the whole computer in to have the drive swapped under warrantee, but we were too busy to be without the Mac, so I just swapped the drive myself.

Those machines are easy to work on.... Unlike the old 8500! Remember those? I had many skinned knuckles from working in those things.

[Possum]

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It was a G5. The drive that failed wasn't the Apple drive it was a Seagate, they replaced it but took awhile.
I just read some bad stuff about the latest OSX update, people's iMacs don't work with it and become big paperweights. I'm not using this update!
Yeah we still have an 8500 packed away in a box. My 9500 it in the garage gathering dust. I can just imagine what we'll be using in 10 years from now. I just read an article about some new memory material that will store data reliably for a BILLION years, and is more dense that anything we have now.....

[soundmasterg]

You should sell those older MACs while they still have some value Possum.......

greg

[kevinT]

It's these new strange colors that have appeared. Must of blew up the servers. Especially the green, it takes quite a bit of RAM to generate that color.

[Dave Kerr]

Is the wiki coming back?

[tboy]

You should sell those older MACs while they still have some value

I bought a 9500 in a thrift store a few years ago for ten bucks. I wonder how much value it has now.

[tboy]

Is the wiki coming back?

Everything is coming back. Just a matter of getting to it...

[David Schwab]

I bought a 9500 in a thrift store a few years ago for ten bucks. I wonder how much value it has now.

It depends on which version it is... but I doubt more than $50.

I still have my Power Computing Mac clone. It was 132MHz when I got it with a 1GB hard drive! Probably had 8MB of RAM. Now it has a 500MHz G3 upgrade CPU. It will only run OS 9. I used to run Linux PPC and Be OS on it too. But they wont run with the CPU upgrade.

I also have a Mac Plus with an external hard drive, and a Mac portable. My wife still uses an old Graphite iMac with a 800Mhz G3 CPU.

I need to get a new Mac at some point. This one is 8 years old.

[Possum]

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Its a 9500 DUAL PROCESSOR, gimme me a break, its worth at least $52, two processors! I think when they came out there was an actual ban on shipping them out of the country to China or the like, could be used by commie terrorists wanting to make photoshop run faster The 8500 is loaded with RAM, can do A/V stuff, its gotta be worth at least $25 by now.

David you ought to get a new iMac. I was fortunate someone owed me just enough money to buy the newest generation, I got the one second from the cheapest with a real graphics card, its much faster in some ways than the G5 180 dual. Heck of a machine for about $1800.

[David Schwab]

Some 9500s were dual processor, but not all of them.

Yeah, I plan on getting an iMac... I'd rather have the tower so I can stick my M-Audio card in it, but that's not going to happen any time soon. But I have to get a "qualified" audio interface so I can run Pro Tools, even though my digital mixer would plug right into the iMac via S/PDIF.

Now I just need the cash! I've updated this one as far as I can go.

Here's a pile of old macs I had once. Two Mac II FX's and Ci's, a Centris 610, a 512K and two pluses. The FX's where $10,000 new! The Ci's where $9,500! They didn't come with "display" cards either! That's crazy. Lots of Nubus slots. Someone gave them to me but I had no use for them.

The boxes have vintage Mac software and books.

I still have one of the pluses, and my MacPortable. Both of them have vintage software installed ... Photoshop 1.0, Illustrator '88, MS Word 2, Aldus PageMaker, etc. I think it's System 6, but I forget.