>>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. >-- >James K Morgan >
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