Out of Cheese

Tomorrow afternoon my landlord is coming over to fix the heat. As I rearranged things to give him access to the area under the stairs where the heater is, I had to move a few boxes out of the way. One was the box for my old 22″ Cinema Display, which I’ve known about for years. The other was quite a surprise — a PowerMac G4 box containing an 867 MHz G4. I’d completely forgotten I owned that computer. I remember the one before it very clearly — a 233 MHz beige G3 — and the one after it was a 15″ Titanium PowerBook which was in use until I got a MacBook Pro last March — but I’d entirely forgotten about the PowerMac G4.

Now that I think back on it I remember using it while I was at Microsoft, but that’s entirely because I remember using the Cinema Display then and the display presumably had a computer connected to it. I think I bought it just before I moved to Washington, and I stopped using it as soon as I moved back to California because in the California apartment I ended up using my laptop in the living room instead of using the desktop in my bedroom as I did in Washington.

Now that I know (again) that I have the PowerMac, I wonder what I’ll do with it. I doubt I’ll throw it away because I’ve never thrown away a computer. I still have the PowerBook 5300c I bought at the start of my freshman year of college and every computer I’ve owned since except for a Pismo PowerBook that I gave to someone last year. Maybe I should find someone to give the PowerMac to….