Sorry for the kid-like subject line, but I have to put in a plug for my 9600. They are a great computer.---------------------
At work I had been using a G3, but it kept crashing and then I got a G4 mirror door, and it kept crashing.
Each time, I would bring my trusty 9600 from home and hook it up, and it would hum along with its 18 gig scsi drive and just keep running, day after day, no problems, with the G3 card inside while the other machines went to the shop.
I now believe that if I ever look out my window and see a mushroom cloud off in the distance, I am going to climb inside my roomy 9600 and I will probably survive. Heck, it's got to be at least as effective as hiding under a desk. If you have the space for one of these puppies, they are just incredible macs with lots of room for expansion.
I have six 9600's stuffed with every kind of upgrade possible ( I don't think I have an empty PCI slot or RAM slot in any of them). That's 36 PCI slots and 72 RAM slots! They each have an Adaptec 29160 SCSI/PCI card in the upper PCI slot and a 36 GB Quantum Atlas 10k 68 pin SCSI hard drive to boot from. They all have the full 1.5 GB of RAM (I was a big buyer of RAM for a while there), and some have XLR-8 processor upgrades. They all have ATI Rage Orion video cards.
I spent more money on each 9600 than a new G4 would have cost me. And have never regretted it. Even though I now have three G4's, the 9600's still do most of the work around here.
I have archived our old family pictures on a couple of 9600's and am going to leave them to my grandson so he can look at the pictures on a 9600 ten years from now. Oh, and when I head out for heaven, I'm taking a 9600 with me.
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James K Morgan
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