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[Alain Schremmer]

On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:54 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Gary L. Gray <gray at psu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> One other thing. The Mac on which this list is running is older  
>>>> than the hills (9 or 10 years?). Some time this summer, I plan on  
>>>> migrating everything to a relatively recent iMac. Only the  
>>>> computer gods and the gods that allocate my time know when that  
>>>> will happen.
>>>
>>> Actually, I just found out that it is more than 12 years old!
>>
>> You mean it is a Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 Silver door?
>
> Not quite. It's a Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) with dual 533MHz PPC  
> G4 and 768 MB RAM. It’s the last model with the "Graphite" tinted  
> case. It has two 80GB HDDs running in a RAID 1 configuration.
>
> Pretty impressive, eh? :-)

Pretty impressive.

According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Timeline_of_Macintosh_models>, the silver door came immediately after  
the graphite with the boundary somewhere around 2001.

What's going to happen to it? (To tell the truth, I am looking for a  
"new" RAID machine for our music library as our old IBM Linux conked  
out ... without warning.)

(Hopeful) regards
--schremmer