The New Computer in my Life (and other geek stuff)
One of the delays in getting this newsletter out was
waiting for my new computer. I kept waiting for the right machine to
be available and be affordable. It finally came out, and I finally
got it! Well, I got almost what I wanted. But that's all you can ever
afford.
It's a Macintosh, but it's not made by
Apple. It is a
PowerComputing
PowerCurve 601/120 computer, with 16MB of memory and a
1GB disk. I also got a 17" monitor (at the heavily snowed-on IEEE
Computer Fair), and a Zip drive. All this for about $3000! Okay, it
would be cheaper than that now, and this machine has been
discontinued already, but it's a major step up. It really has
improved my productivity.
Besides doing
newsletters, I maintain World Wide Web pages for
Central, the
Christian Student
Organization, several dance groups, including the
NACDS, a
"Contra Dancing
in the Southeast" page, and
my own home page. You can
get to all of these from my not-very-impressive
home page which you can
find by surfing by
<http://www.pobox.com/~bwalls/>.
After the government furloughs (and potential furloughs), I set up a
business to do web pages (bwalls Web Design). No paying clients, but
come next furlough I'm ready!
I also do a little desktop publishing. And I like to send e-mail.
Receiving it is better yet. I have a new provider now. Bob Ehresman,
an old Tennessee Tech chum,
operated an Internet Service Provider locally, but it went belly up.
I went with another local
ISP, but changed my e-mail
address to a relocation service. That means my e-mail address should
stay the same despite any changes of provider. My new address is
bwalls@pobox.com.
Currently, I'm thinking that my computer would sure run faster
with another 16MB of memory, a 512kb L2 cache, and a faster modem.
And I have a new machine coming at work. Hmm. More next year...
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