{"id":227,"date":"2004-02-23T22:40:05","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T03:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/the_market_value_of_os_9"},"modified":"2004-02-23T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T03:40:05","slug":"the_market_value_of_os_9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2004\/02\/the_market_value_of_os_9.html","title":{"rendered":"The Market Value of OS 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

First things first. If you have an IBM GXP Deskstar hard drive:<\/p>\n

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  1. Stop reading this journal entry.<\/li>\n
  2. Backup all your critical data right this minute<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Run to your local computer equipment vendor and purchase a non-IBM, non-Seagate disk drive.<\/li>\n
  4. Install your new hard drive and copy over your critical data, reinstalling your OS and applications as necessary.<\/li>\n
  5. Take an axe to your IBM GXP Deskstar hard drive.<\/li>\n
  6. Resume reading this journal entry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So losing my hard drive after only a year and a half wasn’t as bad as you might think. Okay, I’ll admit I’m pretty annoyed with IBM for knowingly manufacturing defective hard drives<\/a>. And it’s disheartening to find out that Apple chose to use those defective hard drives as their stock Quicksilver PowerMac drive. But I’m past that now, mostly because I had my critical files backed up. I was actually feeling pretty smug about that. Hah, silly people who lose data.<\/p>\n

    Until I discovered that I needed to use FrameMaker at home to edit some files that very day.[1<\/a>]<\/sup> See, FrameMaker for the Macintosh is a “Classic” application, and unfortunately, my laptop didn’t have OS 9 installed. It used<\/em> to have a Classic environment, but I had reinstalled Jaguar a while back and never bothered to re-install OS 9. Here’s what I learned that day:<\/p>\n