Wallstreets/PDQ

[Macflyer]

Something has to be said about the Wallstreet's line of devices, at least the second iteration.

I scored a nice one for next to nothing last year and have given it only recently love and attention.

The screen is still phenomenal. I've hardly ever enjoyed a screen so much as with this model. Don't really know if it's the size or ratio of 4:3 or both.

And I love the boot-from-PC-card feature. A tad slower than internal hard drive, but a working system is only minutes away by swapping the CF it into a backup machine. Or booting from the backup CF in case of card failure.

The 256 MB memory are plenty and even the slower 233 Mhz is still enough for my tasks (a bit of surfing, Word, Email.

I was shocked seeing it playing Youtube fairly well with the Classilla plugin.

Eager to see how it compares with a newly liberated Pismo that's on its way. Sometimes it's the details about a machine that makes you either love it or hate it.

So far, of all my vintage acquisitions, this one will be getting the most love. The lack of USB could prove troublesome for quick file transfer onto another machine in the future. I know, there are cards, but at $29 they seem to sell for I don't think I'm going to upgrade it.

Either way, it's a worthwhile Mac.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Nice, I really like my PDQ and Pismo as well, but haven't really used them enough to compare them. The Pismo got a lot of love and attention when it was the Backup Browser for 10.1" HP-Mini, but after I got the 11.2" 3G NetBook, I haven't had much time for it. The PDQ got a lot of TLC when I was setting up to be my Quicken workstation, maybe it'll get some use soon . . .

. . . I've been procrastinating on that project. :-/

I use Zip drives in my PDQ and Pismo, along with the rest of my working collection for most file transfers. I find the wait times more bearable than USB, it's universal from the IIfx on up to my NetBook and QS'02 main machines.

For some reason, OS9 has been chewing up Micro-SD cards and borked a couple of USB KCHN Drives as well. I haven't lost a ZIP disk yet, go figure.

 

[Macflyer]

I forgot to mention I just started a new project with the Wally: converting my music tapes into mp3.

Actually, it's the only computer I got a the moment that can fulfill this task due to sound-in. Maybe even the 1400 could but I rather don't try.

My Windows 7 laptop doesn't have line-in and I can't be bothered to by a usb adapter for the sake of recording music.

So, I connect my Walkman to the Wally and use Audiorecorder. iTunes for mp3 conversion then. The results are really good.

Yes, Zip is something I always wanted to integrate. Well, I do have a floppy module for the PDQ as well as a usb floppy for anything PC/modern Mac. So, some small files aren't the problem.

For everything else I send it via email. It's more convenient.

Of course, Youtube vids are highly compressed and at lower res, but still, for a quick look at something I don't have to switch machines.