A Geek Goes Flying

Screenshot of PowerBook 2400c running iTunes, MacSSH, Fetch After spending all that time banging on the PowerBook 1400c/133 , I was ready when my “Eleanor” popped up on eBay – a PowerBook 2400c with a G3 upgrade already installed! So that’s what I have now. (Need to move the 1400s along to a new home.) It came already running Mac OS 9.1 on a spinning rust hard drive (want to swap that for a PATA SSD like Transcend 32GB PSD330 or (more likely the better option) the OWC 120GB Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit ( OWCSSDMXLE120) , but that’s a non-trivial task ). The Cisco Aironet 350 was recognized on it and didn’t give me the pop-up I got on the 1400, but I couldn’t get it to work. The Orinoco worked just fine, so I’m using that, with a Cisco (Linksys)  WRT54G2 flashed with DD-WRT . Moved some software onto the machine using CompactFlash cards and a PCMCIA adapter, to bootstrap it a bit. Current stack: Classilla 9.3.3 iTunes 1.0 MacSSH 2.1fc3 Fetch 3.0.3 Word...