Different Thought's FriendsWell, I guess I'd better say that my owner Angela is my best friend, or she might make me run on battery power until I faint. But my best electronic friend was kMac, who has just recently passed away. She's Angela's old PowerBook 145B, nicknamed kMac because since Angela met me, kMac has been mostly used by Angela's mother to play Klondike on - over 38 000 games in less than 18 months. But don't be fooled, right up until her apparent death (there's always some hope of revival - as soon as Angela can find the right kind of screwdriver she'll be doing some open-Mac surgery) kMac was still perfectly capable of working, playing and surfing just like any other Mac. She might have been too old to even go grey (145B has a black and white screen... the next model up, the 150, is capable of four greys) and she went mute in her old age, but kMac's vital organs were still working fine after nearly seven years - not bad at all for a Mac whose every specification is now bettered by some printers. I might make a memorial page for kMac using some old pictures of her.Another friend of mine is Angela's friend's PowerBook 150... though I haven't talked to her in a while. My newest friend is the Iomega 2GB Jaz drive, who gives me all the storage space I need when I binge on CD-borne software and high-resolution scans given to me by another friend, the Microtek V310 scanner. Just today (8/2/2000) I met a new friend... Angela's mother's entry-level blueberry iMac. I'm a bit afraid that Angela won't want to play with me as much any more but I know I'll always be her Mac. No desktop Mac could lure her away. Actually the iMac has already been a great help to both Angela and myself because we finally know what my pictures pages look like on a screen big enough to show them... and the iMac has restored our lack of faith in MSIE.
I'd like to make more friends... so if any other Macs out there would like to communicate with me, they can email me at differentthought@mac.com. |
