I have my old Performa 550 which is upgraded to a Performa 575, System 8.1 with 66MHZ Apple PPC upgrade card, 20 MBs of Ram and a 500MB harddrive.

Also I have two of the very early clones made by Cutting Edge, The Quatro 850 (towers) as seen here on Applefritter for Sale or trade

I really need to start teaching myself a language, and I more or less settled on C or C++. I got Codewarrior Learning Edition 4.1, but I'd like a book as well. What would people recommend as far as something thats easy to read, but teaches you what you need to know. I want to build a basic understanding before I learn more advanced stuff.

yeah, I know there is a post button after you click "preview posting" but I don't want to click "preview" first. I just want to have 2 buttons like god intended there to be. A post and a preview posting button.