>On 12/27/98 6:04 PM, Wintermute wrote: > >>How about everyone else out there? Any cool new mac stuff (or possibly > >>even new macs) out there? > > >I just got a new iMac, my fourth Mac and the most powerful/speedy I've >owned! It's a great pleasure to use, and not having that tangle of >wires behind the desk is great. > >Bill G >
Sounds cool, Bill. How much RAM in your iMac?
Honestly now, have you ever really missed that floppy drive? Heheh. I've always wanted to ask an iMac owner that. Of course if you bought a superdrive your response does not count.
My biggest beef with the iMac (and the newer macs if what they're saying is true) is the lack of SCSI. There are SOOOO many peripherals out there for SCSI that, to me, it's a glaring omission. I don't know how much a cheap motherboard SCSI controller would cost (now that they've been using them for approximately 12 years or longer I wouldn't think they're that expensive). Probably the major problem is the size of the interface connection externally, kind of a bummer. If I bought an iMac I would definitely get one of those SCSI mezzanine cards that are out there for $99. Then you could use your old zip, MO drive, or syquest. For me, I haven't really used a floppy in around a year.
In fact, I recently salvaged a 7500/100 and am still in the process of bringing it up to date (it was still running 7.5.1 !). I've done the whole thing thru ethernet! Way faster than floppies or even CDRom in the case of these machines. Setting macs up to network together is a BREEZE! If you keep your old Mac, you can just ethernet it to the iMac and use the old Mac as a floppy drive :)
