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Post #1 by iMac600
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateThu, 10 Dec 2009 - 07:49
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/old-school-amp-new-world.19252/
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For so long... SO long have I wanted a Power Mac G3 MiniTower. Only this one came with a New World companion, and a few extras to boot.

Power Macintosh G3 MiniTower

266mhz PowerPC G3 Processor

384mb Memory

8GB Internal Hard Disk Drive

Wings AV Personality Card

USB 2.0 PCI Card

Some kind of Video Card, 6MB VRAM... i'm thinking an ATI Rage LT Pro, has standard VGA and Apple's display connector, can drive 2 Apple displays at once.

Some kind of SCSI Internal & External card.

ZIP 100 Drive

Mac OS 9.2 Preinstalled

AppleDesign Keyboard

Honeywell ADB Mouse... not ball or optical, not sure what it is.

External SCSI Tape Drive

External SCSI SyQuest SyJet 1.5GB Tape Drive

External SCSI Hard Disk

Another External SCSI Hard Disk

ANOTHER External SCSI Hard Disk...

and I know one of those HD's is 50 Gigabytes.

All associated stacks of Tapes, ZIP disks

All associated cables, power, SCSI, ADB, Serial, Composite Video

Apple Multiple Scan 720 Display

iMac G3 Lime Tray Loader

333mhz PowerPC G3 Processor

40GB Hard Disk

128mb Memory

Mac OS 9.2 Preinstalled

Apple White Keyboard, Fixed Foot Model

Apple Mouse, White

Apple Puck Mouse, Lime Green

I'm thinking the Power Mac G3 will sing with a G4/400 Processor Card, a better (ATI Rage 128 Pro 16mb) video card, some extra RAM and a bigger and faster internal boot drive. I'd be curious to see how well this can pull video with the Wings AV card, but at the same time the external drives and tape backup drives make this machine such a prime candidate for Mac OS X Server. I'll probably try both, considering I have more than enough drives to install multiple systems on...

Total cost of the haul, $40 AUD ($36 USD or 22 GBP).

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