[geeks] Fun compariosn between Mac Plus and AMD Dual Core PC

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:42 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> A PowerMac 7100/120. 64m RAM. Runs MacOS 9.1. Includes a 2g internal HD, and
> 8x CD-ROM drive and a SCSI HP 12x CD burner, 9g USB hard drive.

I've very curious about how you got USB to work on a NuBus Mac.  I have
a 8100 with a G4 upgrade.  Adding USB to it would be amusing.  Who made
your USB adapter?

> A Generic P4 2.6gHz, with 80m disk, 512m RAM, and a 16x DVD burner
> and 
> 52X CD burner. It also bears the "IBM 3145" nameplate, which has adorned
> PC's of mine for over 20 years. :-)

Why in the world would you put a 80Meg disk in a modern PC?  Or for that
matter, why both putting in less disk space than you have RAM, unless
you are using flash to boot from?