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Post #4 by Mars478
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 18 Nov 2009 - 18:24
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/score-curb-pm-g3-b-amp-w.19048/
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So is that fast? If the Macally keyboard is still there when I am going back I will snag it. And I will strip the iMac as well of the Ram and (Hopefully!) Airport card.

If I had a screwdriver in my bag (Which I may) I would dissect it right there on the street. I REALLY wish I could take it, but I already have two and they are huge. And Indigo is not that different from bondi/blueberry. If I were to snag another iMac G3 It would have to be a different color, and near my house. And this iMac is none. So it is good for parts. iMac G3s are just a commodity on the street these days. They have valuable parts though.

Oh the Horror, look at me rejecting a curb machine xx(

No but I have never seen a BW G3 on the curb. There was one in the lab that I have been scoping out for a while, and now it's part of an art project, but this one I Found will serve me much better because of it's higher specs. In terms of condition the other BW G3 in the Lab is better, but I may be able to snag it, and I can cluster these server babes up. I'll install 10.4 Server on this G3, after I see what valuable things it has on the HD. And I get to use my ADB Peripherals. This machine is useful because the SCSI Card has the 50Pin Connector used in the much older macs such as the IIci and the SE, so I can actually get data off of those now.

On the video card, it has a piggyback device with a brand on one of the larger chips "C-Cube Microsystems" Under that label on the same slab of silicon reads "ZIVA DS-L"

The IDE Drive in this machine is 25GB Big, and is IBM Branded. It is connected to the main ATA Channel.

This machine also has the ZIP Drive. It looks like a skilled user was inside of this Machine and upgraded it because everything is nice and clean inside. And it seems this is a custom config because on WikiPedia it seems that no BW G3 ever came with 256MB Stock.

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