Morning folks.
Yesterday was a good day... She arrived.
It was just the 9600 tower that I'd bought, so hooked her up to my old Apple monitor and keyboard and mouse and... she works! Has 8 64MB sticks of RAM installed for 512MB RAM, but... I'd already lucked into some more RAM!
Conquest 2 - 8 x 128MB for 1GB RAM, 400Mhz G3 Sonnet board (and not pictured, VRAM and maths co-processor). All this was scored for £11, listed on ebay as pulled from a dead 8500. The VRAM (and maths board I guess) are of no use to the 9600 but the RAM and G3 board most certainly are!
Only issue so far is that it seems 3 of the RAM slots aren't happy about having RAM in them. I need to do further research and testing before I draw any conclusions though. As it stands, I've got 1GB RAM total in there and she FLIES! Just installed 7.6.1 on one of the other partitions and it's like lightening. Will fit the G3 board today, although I believe that will rule out using 7.6.1?
Anyway, brilliant stuff.
S
Yesterday was a good day... She arrived.
It was just the 9600 tower that I'd bought, so hooked her up to my old Apple monitor and keyboard and mouse and... she works! Has 8 64MB sticks of RAM installed for 512MB RAM, but... I'd already lucked into some more RAM!
Conquest 2 - 8 x 128MB for 1GB RAM, 400Mhz G3 Sonnet board (and not pictured, VRAM and maths co-processor). All this was scored for £11, listed on ebay as pulled from a dead 8500. The VRAM (and maths board I guess) are of no use to the 9600 but the RAM and G3 board most certainly are!
Only issue so far is that it seems 3 of the RAM slots aren't happy about having RAM in them. I need to do further research and testing before I draw any conclusions though. As it stands, I've got 1GB RAM total in there and she FLIES! Just installed 7.6.1 on one of the other partitions and it's like lightening. Will fit the G3 board today, although I believe that will rule out using 7.6.1?
Anyway, brilliant stuff.
S