Oh, hi. You might remember me. My name is Chris, and I’m the guy who used to write an article a day here at Xadara, but over the past 6 months has cut back on this, much to his own displeasure. As much as I’m trying to get back to heavy writing, I wind up taking extended breaks again, and again, and again.
This one, however, didn’t bother me as much as others have, because it was intentional. Certainly not planned, but very intentional. The reason behind it, though, is something completely random:
I got quite a few new computers given to me.
I know, that sounds odd, and no, none of them are replacing my main system so there is zero reason I couldn’t have written something, I just simply chose not to and instead went to devote my time to these machines, because they are a little different from what I normally have sitting around the house. The machines are a single PowerMac G5, and several 2007 iMac’s.
That’s right, While one is outright obsolete and the others are at the end of their supported life, the fact remains I now have functional Apple Macintosh systems at my disposal, and I’ve spent the past week really getting to clean, restore, and just learn them.
Of course, that didn’t take up all my time, but a good enough chunk of time in the evening that I had decided I would just work with those rather than write, spending that time on other things. Ironic for my plans this month, none of that has been gaming.
Now, I’ll go into detail on these computers in future articles. While the iMac’s are pretty typical fair that I’m certain many readers will find bland, the PowerMac G5 is an interesting note for many fronts for me – not only was it the start of all this, but it was a computer I’ve been wanting for years now – the last of the PowerPC based Macintosh systems, and the predecessor to the original style Mac Pro. This is all stuff I’m going to get into in the near future, but it’s all really exciting to me, even if much of the retrocomputer scene neglects late model PowerPC computers (they are too recent to be super interesting, but too old to be really fully usable today) I find them incredibly interesting and full of potential, if only for the sake of making use of the machine. That’s half the fun of old technology though, the sheer experience of using it.
Again, I’ll go into all this in the near future, as well as catch up on things I missed this past week. Yes, seriously this time.
Oh, and there’s E3. That’s a thing that’s going to happen.