January 12, 2003
Of course it’ll fit in there.
The ladies of the house use my seven year old Power Macintosh 8500. It’s not a bad machine, just an older, crankier one. In fact, it’s been a veritable workhorse since it arrived along with my cable modem back in December of 1995. It’s been upgraded with not quite a quarter megabyte of RAM, a 233mhz daughterboard salvaged from a 9600 has been stuffed inside, and it’s been outfitted with a dandy multi-port USB card. However, the poor thing also been limping along on its single 2GB hard drive since the sounds of hardware failure tour this past summer. I’ve yet to wedge larger replacement drive into the ample beige chassis, but I took it upon myself to at least update the operating system to something released within the last three years and get the applications into some semblance of order. The easiest part of the task was doing the backup prior to wiping and reformatting the drive. Ever since I got the beastly Iomega network attached storage drive up and at ’em, I’ve been automating the backups across all of the boxes in the household. At least in theory I’ve been automating the backups. Sometimes the reality of practical computer interaction rears its ugly, deformed head and certain things get missed. Or forgotten. Or deleted. Or… well, you get the idea. However, having a nasty half terabyte of online storage at your beck and call makes worrying about where to put everything a bit less of an issue. Needless to say, the 8500 is happier now. The files are much more backed up than they used to be. And I get a kick out of telling people I have a half terabyte of online storage humming in a rack down in the basement. What a geek.
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