I installed OS 10.2 without a problem. That's as high as I'll go with it. I also put on OS 9.2.1. The purpose of this G3 is to run PowerPC applications and to serve as a network bridge to my older Macs and Apple II's.
It turned out that the previous guy was quite the Mac user. I think this G3 was used in an office, or at least a home office. The last serious use it got seems to be from around 2001-2002. Though there were some files modified as late as 2005. The PRAM battery is still going and the Mac knows its serial number, when it was manufactured, and knows it has 22,000 hours of use!
One of the first things I did was run my disk utility to see what I could un-delete. Nothing. Either this guy covered his tracks, or his old files overwrote the new. Which is a shame, because I found aliases to files which had been deleted such as ClarisWorks 4. However, there was an entire Norton antivirus suite and Microsoft Office (Word 6, Excel 5, PowerPoint 4(?) ) I don't remember what version of PowerPoint it was. The OS was 9.2.2
Anyway, I connected it to my Mac mini and copied the 1 GB of data to the mini, then completely erased the 6GB hard drive and installed OS 9.2.1 on it. Afterward, I installed OS 10.2.
Here are the specs:
It appears this guy bought the top, fastest model of G3 for the day. It has a 300 MHz processor, 1 MB cache, 6 GB hard drive, and originally had 64MB of RAM. Fortunately, this guy installed another SIMM so it has a total of 192 MB now. Very good. Also has usual CD-ROM drive (which I will upgrade to faster model with burner soon) and 100 MB Zip drive.
The inside was very dusty, so I took everything out and cleaned it up. Exterior needed some cleaning as well. The dirtiest things were the keyboard and mouse!
Photos!
First night topless!
Front Perspective
Front
Topless again
A peak inside
Backside
Not pictured: ADB mouse and AppleDesign keyboard. We've seen these a million times before....
It turned out that the previous guy was quite the Mac user. I think this G3 was used in an office, or at least a home office. The last serious use it got seems to be from around 2001-2002. Though there were some files modified as late as 2005. The PRAM battery is still going and the Mac knows its serial number, when it was manufactured, and knows it has 22,000 hours of use!
One of the first things I did was run my disk utility to see what I could un-delete. Nothing. Either this guy covered his tracks, or his old files overwrote the new. Which is a shame, because I found aliases to files which had been deleted such as ClarisWorks 4. However, there was an entire Norton antivirus suite and Microsoft Office (Word 6, Excel 5, PowerPoint 4(?) ) I don't remember what version of PowerPoint it was. The OS was 9.2.2
Anyway, I connected it to my Mac mini and copied the 1 GB of data to the mini, then completely erased the 6GB hard drive and installed OS 9.2.1 on it. Afterward, I installed OS 10.2.
Here are the specs:
It appears this guy bought the top, fastest model of G3 for the day. It has a 300 MHz processor, 1 MB cache, 6 GB hard drive, and originally had 64MB of RAM. Fortunately, this guy installed another SIMM so it has a total of 192 MB now. Very good. Also has usual CD-ROM drive (which I will upgrade to faster model with burner soon) and 100 MB Zip drive.
The inside was very dusty, so I took everything out and cleaned it up. Exterior needed some cleaning as well. The dirtiest things were the keyboard and mouse!
Photos!
First night topless!
Front Perspective
Front
Topless again
A peak inside
Backside
Not pictured: ADB mouse and AppleDesign keyboard. We've seen these a million times before....