iPod bliss

Happiness is a brand spanking new überly cool 40 GB iPod! Those firewire ports on my Blue & White were catching dust. Through the years I never did find any use for them, until today. The speed is amazing! I synchronized my iTunes library of 9 GB in less than a hour. Now what to do with the other 31 GB? Backup my home folder, of course!

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Macintosh

Twenty years ago today, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh and the world of computing has never been the same ever since.

I bought my first mac on December 13th, 1994. It was a Performa 575 with a 68LC040 33 MHz cpu, 8 MB RAM, and a 250 MB hard drive. It was powered with System 7.5 with cooperative multi-tasking. System 7.5 was so more superior to Windows 3.x. I never thought I would fill up that 250MB hard drive. Boy, was I wrong. Continue reading ‘Happy 20th Anniversary, Macintosh’