The new G3 all-in-one

#1 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 - 23:55 68kMLA

Got the first of my G3 all-in-ones running. I installed virtual of with windows 95 then installed Microsoft rdp which is happily letting me download files directly to the hard drive of the Mac.

#2 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 00:28 68kMLA

Nice! Cute but big machines.

#3 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 00:39 68kMLA

Nice! I like these for some reason. They were also the first G3 computers my High School got. I have one now and was playing with it last night. But the top clear plastic piece is smashed and I can not find a replacement anywhere. I think people just scrap em. If you think shipping an II is bad, ship one of these!

#4 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 00:55 68kMLA

it's a shame that MS never released an RDP client for Mac OS pre-X

#5 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 02:04 68kMLA

Unity:

I actually snagged about 6 of these so far. Is that the only part you're looking for cause I've got them.

#6 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 02:43 68kMLA

Ya, just that. My front clear volume buttons are pressed inside too. But I am not sure if that means something snapped or if I can get them back in position. I never took one of these apart.

#7 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 02:49 68kMLA

Are you RDP'd into the virtual 95? I'm confused, the Microsoft Internet Explorer looks like the version 4.0 from Windows 95.

EDIT: or is that 6.0 from a Windows XP machine?

#8 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 02:59 68kMLA

It's RDP from the Windows 95 VM to an XP box running IE6. The colour depth on the VM is limited to 256 colours. (RDP versions pre-XP would be limited to 256 colours as well, but this is the XP client and server.)

#9 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 04:06 68kMLA

Yeah that's what I did. I need to throw a newer browser on there but it was a fresh install of the system.

#10 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 04:08 68kMLA

You could grab Classilla if that's Mac OS 9 you're running windows on top of.

I use it in 8.6 as well.

#11 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 - 04:23 68kMLA

Yeah this was more of a project just because I had picked up a boxed copy of virtual pc and wanted something to use it for.

#12 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 - 12:16 68kMLA

Good snag! I had a combination of these and 7200s in high school and picked one up myself last year. They make great bridge machines if you get the right upgrades.

#13 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 - 20:33 68kMLA

Those AIOs were super popular that very first year (1996?) of E-Rate distributions to schools from the extra fees collected on U.S. phone bills. When I was filling out the (ridiculous) paperwork to get our school some E-Rate funds, the district we were filing through gave us two choices: AIO G3s or generic Pentium PCs.

I remember the day they delivered 12 of these to our loading dock in the basement, and I got to carry them all up the stairs to my 3rd floor computer lab. Boxed weight was ~80lbs. Quite a workout!

I think I got 12 fruity iMacs two years later. Much easier to lug upstairs!

#14 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 - 23:05 68kMLA

What's the noise level on those things?