Sae-chan

Sae-chan's an iBook G4 (Late 2004 model) that I received as a graduation gift. I decided to name her Sae after Nagumo Sae from 最終試験くじら～progressive～ (Japanese visual novel) for whatever reason. Some things eventually happened and I ended up without her for a couple years.

When I got her back, I couldn't find that image on the internet and my memory was escaping me to try to find Sae again, so instead, I named her Momiji after Makino Momiji (from Reconquista) since I thought she was similar to Sae (I was wrong XD).

Anime Characters Database has a specialized forum where people can ask who is a character in an image that they can't identify (it's called the "Who's This Character Board" or the "Who Board" as we call it), and I decided to post since I exhausted all means of finding Sae. After a few days, I gave up on the post and decided to just live with Momiji.... Until....

Early 2014, I was bored and decided to clean out any emails I didn't need to keep. I stumbled upon an unread email notification that there was a new post. When I saw it, I instantly remembered that I had asked there and decided to go look at it. At first, I used the database itself to look at the character and thought "Nah, it can't be her.", but there were a couple of links under the character name which didn't work.

After about a minute, I thought to use the Wayback Machine - Internet Archive for those links that were given and it worked. I looked at the pictures and confirmed that it was indeed her (the game Sae's from is some side Visual Novel of it's main story, so ACDB only catalogued the older version of Sae, which is why I didn't think it was her). Needless to say, I saved all the pictures I wanted to save, renamed and redid some of the images for Sae. (I also thanked the person a lot XDD)

It was a weird feeling that overcame me, it was a mix of the "weight off the shoulders" feeling with a bit of happiness, and with that feeling when you welcome someone close to you back.

After upgrading the hard drive, I decided to do a dual-boot environment with Ubuntu 10.10 PPC, which worked okay until I upgraded to 11.04, and at that point, something made the CPU and/or GPU heat up, so the fan was running at full blast. I just left Ubuntu alone and just used Mac OS X 10.4.11. Eventually after PowerMac G5 project, I installed Debian PPC which works much nicer (I'm assuming it was the Ubuntu desktop environment that Sae-chan couldn't handle well).

For a while I didn't really use her much or have a reason to retire her, but about midway through 2014, I decided to use her for writing stories during the summer, as LibreOffice worked just fine.



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