From: "Alan Friedman" <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: October 1, 2006 10:11:54 PM MDT

To: <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Using and old G4 Powerbook

Reply-To: <alan@greatarrow.com>

I have a first generation G4 titanium laptop that I have nursed along for almost 6 

years now. I used to love upgrading computers every year or two - but a few years 

ago something snapped and now I am thrilled to keep this old workhorse chugging 

along. It is 500 mhz I think.

I have been able to keep between 8 and 9 gigs free on the hard drive, which is 

enough for me on most sessions. I record to the hard drive directly, but back up as 

soon as I can on a small Firelite external portable drive and then delete the files off 

the internal drive so I'm ready for the next session. I often process the images 

directly from the external.

I didn't think you could power both a camera and a firelite drive through the 

firewire bus at the same time? Haven't tried it though.

Alan