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(Almost) nine hours and counting to the ritual tonight. I just nipped out with George and picked up some supplies (apple juice, a nice white roll for the Small Feast during rite, coffee), and am just about to start cleaning up the apartment in earnest. Because George has been working so hard on Albion, he's sleeping today and I'll be doing both dishes AND laundry. Joy and bliss is mine. :-P
Interesting find today... on the way out of the apartment to get supplies this morning, I spied a garage sale happening across the street and dragged George over to it. Boy, am I glad I did! What should be sitting on one of the tables but a Power Mac 6500/225 -- that's right, a Mac tower, complete with three boxes of miscellaneous computer stuff AND a 12-inch monitor.
From the link above...
The Apple Power Macintosh 6500/225, based on the Gazelle architecture, features a 225 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, 32 MB of RAM, a 2.0 GB or 3.0 GB hard drive, 2D/3D graphics acceleration, and an SRS 3D surround sound system with subwoofer in a sleek tower case. There were two different versions of this model, one for the education market which shipped with a 2.0 GB hard drive and an internal Zip drive, and another for the consumer market which shipped with a 3.0 GB hard drive, but without the Zip drive.
The one we picked up is the 3.0 GB hard drive version. Apparently it works, and since it didn't actually belong to the fellow selling it but rather to a friend of his, he parted with the whole kit and caboodle for $5.
Yes. Five. Dollars.
*squeeeeeeeeeee!!!*
Hell, even if the computer doesn't work, some of the stuff I saw kicking around in the boxes (including many, many different cables and a set of speakers) will make the investment worth it.
Interesting find today... on the way out of the apartment to get supplies this morning, I spied a garage sale happening across the street and dragged George over to it. Boy, am I glad I did! What should be sitting on one of the tables but a Power Mac 6500/225 -- that's right, a Mac tower, complete with three boxes of miscellaneous computer stuff AND a 12-inch monitor.
From the link above...
The Apple Power Macintosh 6500/225, based on the Gazelle architecture, features a 225 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, 32 MB of RAM, a 2.0 GB or 3.0 GB hard drive, 2D/3D graphics acceleration, and an SRS 3D surround sound system with subwoofer in a sleek tower case. There were two different versions of this model, one for the education market which shipped with a 2.0 GB hard drive and an internal Zip drive, and another for the consumer market which shipped with a 3.0 GB hard drive, but without the Zip drive.
The one we picked up is the 3.0 GB hard drive version. Apparently it works, and since it didn't actually belong to the fellow selling it but rather to a friend of his, he parted with the whole kit and caboodle for $5.
Yes. Five. Dollars.
*squeeeeeeeeeee!!!*
Hell, even if the computer doesn't work, some of the stuff I saw kicking around in the boxes (including many, many different cables and a set of speakers) will make the investment worth it.
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