I'm running a Power Mac 7500 with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/500, 224MB RAM, 2 SCSI hard drives and Mac OS 9.1. It has been a faithful machine to me for the past 5 years. I will be looking to max out the RAM to 1GB and I also acquired a 10,000 rpm Ultra-Wide SCSI 160 LVD/SE hard drive recently. I do have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Ethernet card so I can utilize the 100Base-T speed than the slower 10Base-T included on the logic board. There also is a PCI USB card installed so I can use my 1GB thumb drive on it.
I use this machine as a digital audio workstation running Audacity, an iTunes jukebox, a soon-to-be home file server for a future web site and also as a conversation starter. The machine also came with A/V capture hardware, so I can handle some basic tasks in that category, but mostly I'll use it to watch a tiny window of live video while doing other things. I'll be on the lookout for a PCI expansion card that handles ATA/SATA/FireWire/USB all-in-one, if it exists. Also, what would you consider a great choice of video accelerator cards to put in, instead of using the built-in video?
Maybe later on, experiment with putting a *NIX OS to make a more powerful desktop system.
73s de Phreakout. :rambo:
I use this machine as a digital audio workstation running Audacity, an iTunes jukebox, a soon-to-be home file server for a future web site and also as a conversation starter. The machine also came with A/V capture hardware, so I can handle some basic tasks in that category, but mostly I'll use it to watch a tiny window of live video while doing other things. I'll be on the lookout for a PCI expansion card that handles ATA/SATA/FireWire/USB all-in-one, if it exists. Also, what would you consider a great choice of video accelerator cards to put in, instead of using the built-in video?
Maybe later on, experiment with putting a *NIX OS to make a more powerful desktop system.
73s de Phreakout. :rambo: