John's System

Description	My current computer equipment
One 1999 Powerbook G3 Bronze (Lombard), PPC G3/333, 320 MB RAM/30 Gig HDD/56Kbps/USB/SCSI/S-Video out/10-100BaseT ethernet/24x CD/NewerTech FireWire togo PCI Card, 14.1 Active Matrix TFT display. This thing was great when it was new, but it is seven years old now and starting to show its age.It is still doing the job though. It is now my primary computer at work. Right now I have MacOS X 10.3.9 Jaguar installed. The battery is shot, the hinges are shot, the third power/sound board is dead, and the pram battery is toast. even with these problems, it still does the job, as long as its plugged in to the wall. Anyway The primary apps I use are MS Office 2004 (Excell 04, Word 04, Entourage 04, and Powerpoint 04). It is always online connected to the internet through a LAN at work. It Still does everything that I need it to, except for connecting to the aircraft's electronic engine control, that's Winblows only.
One Apple PowerMac 7600 Power Macintosh 7600 with a NewerTech MaxPowr 400 Mhz G4 daughtercard upgrade (originally a 132Mhz PPC604E), 296 MB of RAM, one 20 gig SCSI-2 hard drive, Yamaha 4x4x16 SCSI CD burner, 33.3 USR faxmodem, and 10/100 baseT ethernet. I am currently running the system with a 21" Apple Display using the motherboard graphics accelerator maxxed out at Four MB of VRAM. It has also got built in Analog video inputs for making QuickTime movies. This computer is used for all of the same apps as the PowerBook G3, and I have it set up at home to run older Mac OS9 software, mostly games.
This inkjet has great print quality but it's not networkable and it uses the old style Apple serial port instead USB so it won't work with the powerbook, it is currently hooked up to the Powermac 7600/G4. This printer simply will not die, Ink carts are cheap, I get them from source4ink.com. I'm only plugging it because I like it.
Description	My past computer equipment
One Umax c500 Macintosh compatible PPC 603e/240Mhz, 80MegaBytes of RAM, 60 gigabyte hard drive, 8x CD, 10/100 baseT ethernet. This computer still powers up, but when its hard drive gave up the ghost, it became a paperweight. My mother has one of these too, and it's still working (as of 02/13/06).
This Apple laser printer started out life as a LaserWriter IINTX, I installed a logic board that upgrade that upgraded it it to a LaserWriter IIG. This upgrade brought several improvements over the older motherboard. The onboard processor went from a 16.67 mhz 68020 to a 25mhz 68030, and increased max onboard memory capacity from 12 MB to 32 MB. The IIg motherboard also included: PostScript level 4, improved fineprint 300 dpi greyscale grahics, and a 10 Mbps AAUI ethernet connector. The print speed is significantly faster with the IIg board especially after I maxxed out the memory to 32MB. The LaserWriter IIg was connected to the ethernet hub by an Apple ethernet twisted pair adapter that allowed the Laserwriter's AAUI connector to connect to an RJ45 10baseT connector. I was really bummed when this thing died. It just wouldn't feed the paper anymore. I sold the motherboard on ebay loaded with all its memory, it went for $70. Still have the carcass, but it will be gone this spring.
Mustek MFS-6000CX scanner, A triple pass flatbed scanner with a SCSI interface. It was old and slow. Many of the original scanned images on my site were done on this old relic. I have replaced many with re-scans from my newer equipment, but It's not hard to tell which images came from this machine. Look over my site for any of the small, dark, muddy scans. If they fall into that description, They most likely came from this scanner.
One Powerbook Duo 230 MC68030/33 320 MB/14.4 Kbps/Mac OS 7.6.1. This computer met is death when the screen became separated from the keyboard in a manner by which it was never designed to be separated.
One Atari 800XL/MC6502/3 (okay, it's not really part of my system, but it still works!) This old relic, circa 1984, was my very first computer, I bought it new in 1985. It came with a whopping 64 Kilobytes of ram and had an 8 bit motorola 6502 processor running at an impressive 2 Mhz! Believe it or not that was the fastest processor available at the time, the Atari was faster than both the Apple II and the Commodore 64. I have an Atari 1010 program recorder (a glorified audio cassette recorder) and a Atari 1050 5 1/4 Floppy disc drive. I spent a lot of time playing games like Miner 2049'er and Spelunker in the barracks on this thing when I was in the Marine Corps. This system was later replaced by an Atari 1040st color system in 1987 that I used until I bought My first Macintosh, a Performa 550/68030/33) in1993 .