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2x Blue and White

68kMLA PowerPC 15 posts Nov 18, 2008 to Nov 21, 2008

#1 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 - 01:55 68kMLA

Blue and White, I should be able to get it tomorrow, depends if the employee tech guy can get one before the crowd has at them.

#2 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 - 05:44 68kMLA

Cool. I used to have a Blue and White G3, but it died on me.

#3 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 - 11:47 68kMLA

Nice, I've had 3. I've got 1 running as a print server right now. They're really nice machines.

What's it got in it?

#4 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 - 14:43 68kMLA

Nice... I suggest getting a G4 Yikes! CPU and dropping it in. It will make quite a difference under OS X should you use it for that

Look around for a firmware update from someone like Sonnet that will allow you to use the G4 .

I did this when I had my B&W and noticed a spike in performance under OS X by 20%

#5 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 02:53 68kMLA

Oh yeah! I brough in a big haul tonight!

-2x B&W G3s, one with 512MB RAM and the other with 320MB, merged the RAM into one machine (the one with the 80GB HD, mind you }

), It had a brand new stock install of 10.3.

-A stick of DDR RAM, 512MB

-A mystery off-brand Video card that I'm afraid to try.

-A USB card that I'm also weary of

-and a DVDROM drive

3P1C W007!

#6 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 05:31 68kMLA

-A mystery off-brand Video card that I'm afraid to try.

-A USB card that I'm also weary of

...why?

#7 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 07:35 68kMLA

Nice, I've had 3. I've got 1 running as a print server right now. They're really nice machines.
What's it got in it?

Now I have more blue and whites than you.

the one I bought from you,

and like, 3 others I've gotten in the past couple of months.

#8 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 11:40 68kMLA

Bah. I bet I still have more plusses than you do.

#9 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 19:09 68kMLA

I have 2 G3 B&W machines (one with a G4-450), they are very nice systems (both are REV 2's).

Kind of cool they still have ADB ports.

#10 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 21:46 68kMLA

And I'm pretty glad about that, because I have no use for the 3ish I already have.

#11 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 01:35 68kMLA

I have three PowerMac G4's. Ranging from 450MHz, dual 450MHz, and 733MHz.

#12 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 04:41 68kMLA

Nice, I've had 3. I've got 1 running as a print server right now. They're really nice machines.

Good work... they really are tanks. They're solidly built, run Tiger and OS 9, and support ADB and serial (with a stealth serial port). Plus, after fighting with an 8500 for a while, the drawbridge case is a godsend.... makes trying to find bad RAM a walk in the park. The case also has a nice character that some of the later beige macs didn't really have.

#13 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 15:17 68kMLA

support ADB and serial (with a stealth serial port).

What's that stealth serial port? Are you talking about the blue & white G3?

#14 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 - 15:22 68kMLA

support ADB and serial (with a stealth serial port).

Click to expand...

What's that stealth serial port? Are you talking about the blue & white G3?

New World Macs actually included a serial port in the logic board for years after they'd been removed from the outside, for the internal modem. The stealth serial port just replaces the internal modem with an actual external serial port.

#15 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 - 00:34 68kMLA

So far this guy runs fine, I want to install 10.4 on it. The other one I have may become an overclocking project.