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RacerX
Old Rhapsody User
At the time it was released, the Quadra 950 (1992) was a monster. Fastest Mac ever! Room for four drives internally, two SCSI buses, and five NuBus slots and one PDS, and to top it off, sixteen SIMM slots for a max of 256 MB of RAM.
Fast forward to today (11 years later): I still use a Quadra 950 as one of my primary systems. Currently running with 136 MB of RAM, 10 total GB of drive space, CDR drive, three 21" monitors, an Apple PPC601/66 with 1 MB of L2, and Mac OS 8.1. This system is still very useful.
Most of this has to do with perspective. Looking at 10 year old Mac stuff and thinking it is crappy because you have never had to use it in the environment it was made in isn't all that different from how PC people put down Macs they have never used.
Just think, 10 years from now kids (who are the same age as you are now) are going to look back at our vintage G4's and G5's and think, "Wow, I can't believe you paid so much money for something so crappy!"
Age has a lot to do with perspective. I can remember being a Junior in High School when you were born, I had just started getting seriously involved with the woman that would end up being my first wife. And I remember seeing my first Mac (I was an athlete at the time, and didn't have time for computers and the like back then).
On the other hand, somethings don't change. You were about the same age when the Columbia was lost that I was when the Challenger was lost (of course, I can remember watching the Columbia's first launch).
My guess is that you won't be the one call G4s and G5s crappy, it'll be someone else. You'll know what it was like using them for real work and you'll know how to make the most of them the way others (running Mac OS 11.1 on their new quad G7s) couldn't even imagine. At that point you'll know that it isn't as much what a raw system can do as it is who is at the controls of that system.
Fast forward to today (11 years later): I still use a Quadra 950 as one of my primary systems. Currently running with 136 MB of RAM, 10 total GB of drive space, CDR drive, three 21" monitors, an Apple PPC601/66 with 1 MB of L2, and Mac OS 8.1. This system is still very useful.
Most of this has to do with perspective. Looking at 10 year old Mac stuff and thinking it is crappy because you have never had to use it in the environment it was made in isn't all that different from how PC people put down Macs they have never used.
Just think, 10 years from now kids (who are the same age as you are now) are going to look back at our vintage G4's and G5's and think, "Wow, I can't believe you paid so much money for something so crappy!"
Age has a lot to do with perspective. I can remember being a Junior in High School when you were born, I had just started getting seriously involved with the woman that would end up being my first wife. And I remember seeing my first Mac (I was an athlete at the time, and didn't have time for computers and the like back then).
On the other hand, somethings don't change. You were about the same age when the Columbia was lost that I was when the Challenger was lost (of course, I can remember watching the Columbia's first launch).
My guess is that you won't be the one call G4s and G5s crappy, it'll be someone else. You'll know what it was like using them for real work and you'll know how to make the most of them the way others (running Mac OS 11.1 on their new quad G7s) couldn't even imagine. At that point you'll know that it isn't as much what a raw system can do as it is who is at the controls of that system.
Arden
Where mah "any" keys at?
Oh sure, you can find good use for older systems like that. It all depends on what you're doing; if you're bread and water comes from using Photoshop, one of those machines definitely won't cut it. I look back on our old IIsi and think how many years we used that machine... when we bought this G3 to replace it, it was like a dream come true. Okay, it was a dream come true. And now this computer is passé.
The Altair 8800 used to be the computer for a time... now people don't even consider something cool unless it has more than one gigahertz.
The Altair 8800 used to be the computer for a time... now people don't even consider something cool unless it has more than one gigahertz.