It's an electronic device used for processing data, but that's not important...

Quick Update:I bought a new 450 MHz dual processor Power Macintosh in 2001! More later.

I've got an Apple Power Macintosh 7200/90, the second person in Syracuse to buy one of these machines. Wow, I remember when I first got this system, in 1995 ... 90 MHz seemed so fast! I've had my share of problems with it, no denying; this was the first batch of Macs which used the PCI bus, and there were a number of system bugs. I like using extensions like GoMac and Default Folder and OneClick, which no doubt make my system less stable than plain vanilla Mac OS 8.1 would. But who likes plain vanilla? Drizzle on some sauce, add some nuts, put a cherry on top... (No, waitaminnit, that was my last date. Sorry.)

I bought a CD-R burner recently, and would recommend everyone buy one, along with Retrospect Express, and start doing regular backups. It's saved my neck already. You can get a month's worth of daily backups on two or three CD-R's (your mileage may vary, of course). Blank media can be bought for less than $1 per disk, if you hunt out rebates, or about $2-$3 usual price. It's worth $5-$10 a month to be able to recover your hard drive when it crashes -- and there's no "if" in that sentence, it will crash sometime.

For several years I helped the Syracuse Macintosh Users Group, running the Disk Library. I produced two CD-ROMs of shareware for the members.

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