I’m fairly excited about the weekend. First off, Leah and I are going to see The Departed on Saturday night. If it’s half as good as I’m expecting it to be, I’ll have a good time.
But I’m really looking forward to working a couple “old” computers. One is an Apple iMac 400MHz DV SE, which is a machine I bought in 1999 and sold a couple years ago to a friend. I’ll be reinstalling OS X Panther on that and possibly opening up the case to clean things out a bit (it’s amazing how much less dust gets into computers when there’s no cooling fan to bring it in).
Next, I’ll upgrade the RAM and install Panther on an Apple iBook 366MHz SE. Unfortunately, this is the last of the non-Firewire iBooks. I’m eager to see how this old hardware handles Panther. I’ve already seen OS X on the iMac, and it works amazingly well. Panther on the iBook is going to be a stretch, but as the machine is used only for e-mail and Web browsing, it should carry the load all right.
I wonder if Ava will be into this stuff, or if computing in her world will be so much different that the only thing to get excited about will be the aesthetics. When I read stuff like this, it lights a fire under me; will it pique her interest at all? Maybe she’ll grow up to be a geek.