We finally have a functional Mac in the house. While Kitt’s got a G4 with a mega screen, it’s still in storage and we’ve not managed to extract it yet (not sure where to put it :). A friend gave me an old G3 that they had spare – 300Mhz with 256Mb RAM – not a bad little machine. I’ve loaded it with OSX 10.3.9 plus a stack of open source software (FireFox, OpenOffice.org, etc), hooked it into our LAN and set it up on Kitt’s desk. She’s now using it for all her webmail, searching, etc. Given that she was using an antique little laptop, she’s ecstatic to have something a little faster.
So, Windows, Linux and OSX – wonder what else we can bring in and hook onto the network here. Perhaps a SUN box? My friend Jim would say it should be an AMIGA but maybe it’ll be a games console :)