Project: add a 25 GB partition on the 12-inch PowerBook’s HD to allow for OS X 10.4.11 installation. Done. Now creating a disk image of another Mac’s 8 GB Tiger installation. I plan to use Disk Utility to restore that dmg to the new partition.

Didn't happen. Scarcely a drop of rain from that lot.

Nope. That didn’t work. Ice hasn’t improved ankle pain, commencing anti-gout treatment.

Ice pack time. This time it’s for the previously-good left ankle

No spacing between sentences though.

Looks like I’m headed for a wet arse & no fish scenario.

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Fine. I've been contacted by a fellow who wants to get ClarisWorks & SimpleText documents off his father's Mac Performa 580CD, a model that was discontinued early in 1996.
The thing still boots OK (OS 7.5.3) and, since the IDE HD just slides out, I'll put it into an external drive case & use either LibreOffice on the MacBook Air or AppleWorks 6 on the G4 PowerBook to extract the documents. The Docs folder is 22 MB.

Intermittently cloudy day is interfering with my MBA's auto-brightness setting. Turned off in System Preferences.

Velcro was so named by its inventors because it used loops like velour and hooks inspired by crochet hooks.

Need to use this again.
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The ankle pain is reduced by the compression caused by tightening the upper velcro strap.