So many thanks
When the PowerBooks G4 came out I was too little and no amount of small kid pocket money would have bought me one —yet they looked and went like starships (real ones, not the fireworks relatives that SpaceX makes these days).
This was sad then and actually still is: it would have started me off on Unix much earlier and, therefore, I’d probably be a better computer person now.
Anyway, with my first job’s money I decided to go back in time and got myself, well, a few PBs. One arrived from California and, along the way, something like a washing machine must have fallen onto it —which was actually not so bad, because it gave me the opportunity of going inside the thing to replace all broken bits: real depth of engineering, also compared with modern Macs.
The thing is: those machines are still very good computers for everything you’d like to do. Wrote my thesis and compiled the LaTeX on one. Run also a particle physics simulation on it and, although not on par with a fat Ryzen, still could handle.
The only nonfunctional bit was the Internet browsing, until I came across TenFourFox, which re-made it possible. Yes, the poor CPU would run at egg-cooking temperatures and streaming videos was asking it a bit much, but functional.
It’s such a shame that sites (not ElReg, which works also under Lynx!) are now bad, inefficient applications that you have to JIT-compile and that all this is too much for a one-man-dev-team.
I for one think he did an absolutely awesome job, and deserves a very large supply of these —>
Biting the hand that feeds IT
