- 2006.10.11
Hi everyone,
I imagine some of you have been wondering what happened to me
and why I stopped writing in every few days to give an update on my
progress.
Well, I was keeping a close eye on how many hits each articles
was getting, and the numbers were discouragingly low. 300 or so the
first day, 800-1,000 the first week. Those are very low numbers
compared to my earlier articles, so I decided to hold off until the
end of the 30 days to write another article.
I guess it was for the best, because I really didn't couldn't
think of anything else to write - and I'm still having a hard time,
because everything went so smoothly!
What can I say? Except for blogs, forums, pictures, video, and
music, these old machine seem to be perfectly capable of doing just
about any day-to-day task you can throw at them.
AIM works fine for instant messaging; WannaBe works great for
web browsing; ClarisWorks, Word 5.1, and Excel 3 work fine for word
processing and spreadsheets; Now Up-to-date works fine for my
schedule (that's all I have ever used for my schedule book); and
Now Contact is great for all of my contacts.
One thing that didn't work out: iCab. I tried running it for a
few days, but I just couldn't take how slow it was. iCab is a great
browser for the classic Mac OS, and I'm sure it would have been
okay on a 68040 machine, but it was way too much for 25 MHz 68030
in my PowerBook 170.
But for the most part, every day of it was like any other day;
nothing seemed all that different. That's why it was hard for me to
write a progress report every few days.
I'm looking forward to powering on my G4 for the first time in a
month. I'm sure it will be like turning on a brand new machine for
the first time.
This has been a real adventure. 30 days is a long time to use
nothing but the oldest in this day and age, but it was a real
treat. And maybe sometime in the future I'll try using nothing but
68040 machines.
After all, I spent 30 days on nothing but black-and-white
machines, so 30 days on 68040 machines should be a piece of cake.
