Yesterday, I had to call AppleCare (ugh) to order some replacement memory for one of the G5s at work. Why I was charged $200 + $10 shipping for this task I’m not entirely sure, but I’m assuming it’ll be refunded to me once I send back the bad memory. Otherwise, words will be exchanged.

Anyway, I was telling the nice lady on the other end of the phone that it wouldn’t be a problem for us to replace the RAM in the G5; it’s a very simple process. After a few minutes spent prepping the order, she mentioned off-handedly that installing the memory would be a simple process and that we wouldn’t have any problems doing so.

Being the polite fellow that I am, I decided not to point out that a) I’d already suggested this myself, and b) while talking to her on the phone, I was simultaneously balancing the motherboard of a Mac SE on my lap swapping out four 256K 30-pin SIMMs for their 1M equivalents. I figured it probably wouldn’t impress her as much as it should (”what’s an SE?”).

(There is a reason why I was upgrading a computer old enough to vote, but it’s complicated. More to come, though.)