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THE LIMAC FORUM/MAY 2009

Bradley’s Tech Session User Group News

stuffs anymore, and the free Expander expands any .sit or .sitx

file you may still find. The Standard edition lacks the Stuffit

Archive Manager and Magic Menu. Stuffit Archive Manager

lets you open and view the contents of archives, or add to

existing archives which most people don’t do and the Magic

Menu gives you keyboard shortcuts to stuff and unstuff in the

Finder. Deluxe also offered a archive by rename system pref-

erence panel, that again nobody used and it in fact caused the

Finder to repeatedly restart after you installed Security Update

2008-008 in Tiger. If you want to compress and have your

compressed archives be cross-platform, use the Finder’s File

menu .zip compressor. The only component possibly and not

likely useful is the ExecutiveSync. That is freeware anyway. As

it hasn’t been updated in 5 years and was designed for Mac OS

10.0, I wouldn’t touch it at all. So overall, a pile of junk for too

much money. I’d be wary of any offering from SmithMicro in

the future. They resell other companies stuff like crazy, perhaps

because they can’t develop anything worthwhile of their own

anymore.

Can you put all your utilities onto a bootable flash drive?

■ For starters, the USB flash drives officially will only boot

a Intel based Mac and the FireWire flash drives that can do

both are very expensive. I’ve heard of G4 and G5 models

booting from USB drives. PPC Macs have very slow USB per-

formance, even the USB 2.0 on the newer models is much

slower than USB 2.0 on the Intel based Macs. Micromat sells

the $229 TechTool Protégé 2.0.1 but that has not been updated

in a while supporting version 4.6.2, but you could wipe it out

and attempt to put more modern software on it. Anyway, back

to the USB flash drive, considering that the software for one

utility and the Mac OS X comes on a DVD, I figure a 4 GB

drive might be tight, so I’d suggest a 8 GB one. Also most

garden variety el-cheapo flash drives are pretty slow performers,

I did some research and found the Kingston ultra-high speed

DataTraveler HyperX model, now in 8, 16 and 32GB capacities,

have the best speed while retaining the slim form factor needed

to avoid blocking adjacent USB ports like some models. OCZ

now has a Rally2 Turbo drive, in 4 and 8GB capacities that is

very fast. It’s just a tad fatter than the Kingston but it uses a

loose cap you could lose. If you’re shopping and the package

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is, I didn’t have to think too hard - it’s the Macintosh SE/30.

Despite Andy Ihnatko’s sage comment that one’s favorite Mac is

one’s first Mac, the SE/30 was only my first Mac on the outside

- it started life as an SE that Tonya and I later upgraded to an

SE/30 with a motherboard swap in 1990.

My choice, shared by stalwarts John Gruber and John

Siracusa, was not based on the fact that the SE/30 can

in any way compete with a modern Mac, which Charlie

Sorrel seemed to think was relevant on Wired’s Gadget Lab

blog. It’s painfully obvious that the SE/30 has nothing

on any modern Mac. If the best Mac ever was simply the

most powerful, it would merely be a competition between

Apple’s current models, and it would change as soon as a

new Mac came out. Boring.

No, the SE/30 gets my nod as the best Mac ever for

more subtle reasons.

It offered, for the time, an amazing combination of power,

small size, and expandability, thanks to its 68030 processor and

PDS expansion slot. It wasn’t the first to be that fast or the

most expandable - both of those awards went to the Macintosh

IIx - but it opened our eyes to the possibility that we could

have a small Mac that made no compromises. The next Mac to

do that for me was the PowerBook 100, which might be my

runner-up for best Mac ever, thanks to what it showed was pos-

sible in a portable form factor.

That expansion slot was key, because it made multiple

monitors an obvious and financially realistic option for many

people. An SE/30 with a video card and an external monitor

was a lot cheaper than a Macintosh IIx with two video cards

and two monitors. Attaching a second monitor is one of the

easiest ways to increase productivity to this day, something

that New York Times writers noted back in 2006 and again

just a few weeks ago. Since that SE/30, every one of my main

Macs has had multiple monitors attached.

Even after I stopped using the SE/30 as my main

Mac, the expansion slot kept it useful, since I was able

to install an Ethernet card and use the SE/30 for various

Web and mailing list server duties until 2001. Sure, a new

Mac could have performed the SE/30’s tasks without dif-

ficulty, but I didn’t have to buy one for that purpose,

because the SE/30 remained useful for over a decade, run-

ning continuously updated software the entire time. No

other Mac I’ve owned has had such a lifespan, and with

Apple ever more focused on getting us to upgrade fre-

quently, I doubt any Mac will enjoy such longevity again.

In short then, the SE/30 was a great package that

offered a glimpse of what the Macintosh could be in the

future and then stuck around to watch that future come

to life around it. And that’s why I keep my SE/30 around

to this day in a bookshelf, where it can see the new Macs

that trundle in and out of our offices and remind us of

where we started.

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