Max is no longer. May his memory rest in peace. I installed a fresh copy of OS 7.5 after extended histrionics on Apple’s website attempting to find and/or download a usable disk image of the Disk Tools floppy (which I didn’t bring with me.) Once that hurdle was over with, I installed the OS via floppy (remember that?) and shut him down. I’m going to sell him with a Farallon adapter, two SCSI adapters and possibly my spare Zip drive to sweeten the deal, although I could possibly use the Zip for the 7100. Speaking of, I think I’m going to pull the original 2MB drive out of that and drop it into the 7100 for added space, then load OS9 onto the 4MB Barracuda I put in it last summer. I also dug out a keyboard and mouse and set that with the 8500, which got a fresh copy of OS8 this morning (it didn’t like the copied OS8.5 disk I tried yesterday.)

It’s beautiful outside today, but due to get cold and rainy this afternoon; it was 70 earlier but it’s going down to 30 tonight and tomorrow. Dammit. I got a ripe, rich whiff of cut grass this morning and it just made me ache for summer. Of course, when it’s 95 and Baltimore-humid, which is not unlike swimming in warm snot, I will be wishing for sweater-weather again (say, mid-June.)