I spent a few hours last night getting all the stuff off Speedy (the 8500) and low-level/zero-formatting the disk; when I attempted to install 8.5 from the CD I kept getting disk errors. I know the CD on that machine is a piece of junk, but there really shouldn’t be a problem with it. I’m going to crack the case, pull the hot-running 4GB drive, dust the CD, and wiggle the connectors, then install 8.5 over it and ready it for sale.

I then brought in Max (the 520c) and tried to find the floppy OS install files from Apple’s website, but it looks like they pulled the old FTP site down in favor of some script-run download site (probably so they can track the downloads better.) So I have to hunt down a copy of OS8 on CD, transfer the install files to floppy and re-install the system on Max once and for all. That will be tomorrow.

The Osbournes is possibly the funniest show on TV right now. We saw it over the weekend on tape. Ozzy is a funny Ward Cleaver, once you get past the tattoos and hair. it’s a long way from the old ‘Shot in the Dark’ days of Mahopac Junior High School, when I was the only kid who thought that Mid-80’s Ozzy was a bloated, off-key mess, and Zakk Wylde was a cheesedick.

Instead of paying us on time, they bought a bunch of new computers for some of the other guys and bought the artists GeForce3 cards; mine is very, very fast and very nice. I can clearly see the case for buying a fast game PC. But not today.