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I put 16Gig of memory in my machine and the 256M SSD. I formatted the new SSD as exFat, but I am willing to bet that’s not what a Hackintosh needs. Everything seems to be working, so far.
I have the old 4Gig of memory in a bag. Erica’s machine has 6Gig. I don’t know how the memory is configured. If there are 8 slots on the motherboard, I should be able to get her up to 8Gig. I have to wait until she is not using her PC.
I suppose that I should order Erica’s new SSD. It will cost around $85. I think I might order a power supply, too. Hers has lots of fan noise.
Update
Erica’s computer has 4 slots on the motherboard. This means that she probably has two 1Gig and 2 2Gig memory cards. There are other possible combos, but my lowly 1Gig cards won’t help her.

In 2010, I put together 13 computer related stories and published Error Message Eyes. It made me a couple of hundred dollars over the last 12 years, but it was not what I would call an overwhelming success.
It occurred to me recently, that I had written quite a few more computer oriented stories in the last 12 years, so I started collecting Error Message Eyes, Release 2.0. The new book has 24 stories, but I only used 5 from the last book. I took all the Mizuki stories and put them in order. I then wrote three new stories by assembling fragments and finishing them, so that Mizuki is now a novella.
One of the things that I hated about the first book was that it was riddled with errors and typos. I used a combination of straight quotes and curly quotes. Every time I read it, I cringed.
This time I installed something called LanguageTool, https://languagetool.org/. I have to absolutely recommend this software for anyone who is suffering, as I am, from brain fogging drugs to treat seizures. The Firefox and Chrome plugins make your web writing much cleaner (although not 100% error free). I use LibreOffice and the installation there is much more complicated, but worth it. It freezes up LibreOffice regularly, but CTRL-ALT-DEL lets me kill it, so I can start again. You just have to save your work whenever you stop to think. In spite of its faults, I like it.
Shaun Lawton volunteered to do the artwork, so I am eager to see what I get. I like Shaun’s art. It is high-tech, bold and colorful. He said it would be done quickly almost two weeks ago, but I think he underestimated the time investment he would have to make.
I have done two proofreads of the book and am 30 pages (out of 220) from finishing the third time through. I like to rewrite as I proof and wind up adding new typos. I will be starting over again tomorrow for the final proof. I don’t want to be surprised when I check the book and find typos that I missed.
I want to do a major spam operation to all the editors, forums and FB groups that I can find. The digital version of the book will be free for the first 4 or 5 days, and I hope that it will get enough downloads to make it to the Amazon top 10 list. If I do this, I might even make money when I start charging for the book. I’ll charge as little as I can for the paperback.
For vanity’s sake, I want to make a hard cover version and buy a few for myself, and one for Shaun and one for John Shirley. John was a major inspiration for the stories in the book.

I have been listening to Gibson’s Count Zero while I take my walk. The weather hasn’t been cooperating, so I am only 1/3 of the way through after two weeks.
Gibson uses a phrase ‘The Hard and the Soft’ meaning hardware and software. I have not done anything for my computer upgrade plans.
I want to upgrade my old Dell i5 that has 4G ram and a 1 TB drive. I bought 16G of ram on eBay. I have a 256G SSD that I want to add as a second drive. At the same time, I want to take the 4G chips that I replace in my machine and put them in Erica’s old Dell, so she has 8G of ram. I figure I should get another SATA SSD, so I can upgrade her and get rid of the clunky old hard disk.
Recap: Replace ram on my machine and add another SSD. Add removed ram to Erica’s machine and replace HD with SSD.
Replacing Erica’s HD involves cloning her current disk, which is time-consuming. Adding ram is trivial.
Replacing my ram is trivial. Adding the new SSD is only a matter of figuring out how to format it for a Hackintosh.
I need a SSD SATA data cable for my new SSD and one to use for Erica’s new SSD to run the clone.
I have a 256G SATA SSD WD Blue for my addition disk. I need a 1 TB SSD for Erica’s machine, which will cost me $85. WD Blue are best rated, so that’s the way I’ll go.
I ordered a handful of SATA cables because I can’t find my stash (brain fog). I need to order Erica’s SSD, and I am thinking about doing that.
While I have Erica’s machine open, I’ll vacuum it because I think that it is full of cat hair.
So you see, I am still working on Hardware, just not moving forward very fast. I need to finish this step before I can move onto creating my Hackintosh.