Pants in Motion

I couldn’t help myself – I got another Mac.

Check out these über specs!

* A 68040LC processor running at a blazing 25Mhz!
* 36 — yes, that’s right, 36 megabytes of memory!
* A staggeringly-large 200MB hard drive!

That’s right kids, this computer has less power and storage than the iPod in my pocket.

My boss had it in the boot of his car and I couldn’t resist asking for it. The best aspect of it is the excellent Apple Extended Keyboard with the oldschool clicking keys – probably worth more to an enthusiast than the rest of the machine put together. The machine has a build date of August 1993, so the mouse and keyboard have held up brilliantly.

I had to spend $25 on a replacement PRAM battery (without which the video circuitry wouldn’t even power up), and I am trying to win a network card on ebay (of course it’s horribly non-standard, but very cheap! I’m currently the winning bidder with my $1 bid).

I am kinda thinking of putting Linux onto it, but Linux needs a beefier CPU with a floating-point unit. A replacement CPU will cost me around $15, so maybe I’ll just stick with System 7.1 for a while..