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Growin' my bangs out finally.
RAW also isn't fun, not when you're still using an iBook G4 from 2005...anyone remember when PowerPC processors weren't out of date? I do, I'm still using one. My computer froze every time I moved a slider!
A photo tribute to an old machine, 1999-2007 and still running strong, but no longer needed. It was also the noisiest thing in my new place, but served me well over the years.
* Intel Celeron 433
* 256 MB RAM
* Dual-boot WinXP/98SE
* ~75 GB disk space, 2 drives
* 4X CD-R / multi-format dual-layer DVD+/-R drives
* Numerous stickers
* Super-optimized boot time + drive transfer speed via ATA66/80-conductor UDMA IDE cables (new at the time.) XP used only ~64 MB of RAM after boot.
I basically wrote all my DHTML experiments and projects (DHTML Arkanoid as one notable example), did audio/video and photo editing on this machine up until 2005 when I moved to California, at which point it became a storage/DVD-writing machine and dev server (also ran http, smtp and ftp.)
Now I have 250 GB of external storage and a laptop that does dual-layer DVDs, so this old ghetto dev machine has officially been rendered obsolete. I moved all of the important data over to my new system, so I'm officially done with it. This photo serves as a mental note of its history.
All my dad's old 5-and-a-quarter inch floppies, kept for unknown reasons from his time as an engineer working for Walkers crisps.
Matt and I came up with two explanations for this:
1) This is clearly some kind of killer attack robot (note the insidious eyes);
2) The SE/30 has initiated some kind of chain reaction in its CPU, resulting in total destruction in about 30 seconds.
Colorado Circulation System Multiplex with Kennedy Tape Drives.
This is a digital rendition of a 35mm transparency scanned with an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. Some colour restoration has been applied.
Main unit, printer module (closed), accessories module (serial, LPT, and proprietary monitor connection)