Just got back from the town across the river (Mandan, ND for those interested) and got a nice deal.
He did have a few LCII and LCIIIs, as well as a PowerMac 8600/200 (which was in damn good shape, and a pull from the college I go too odly enough), and a 6100AV, but I figured I would be lucky to survive bringing 4 more home The 8600 was intriguing, anyone have thoughts on it's potential?

-Academician

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The potential of an 8600 is quite huge, for lack of a better term. First off, it runs every OS from 7.6 to 9.1. Then, with XPostFacto, you can run up to the latest Tiger...it has 3 PCI slots, which I've put in a video card, firewire, and ATA 66 card. The CPU is upgradeable, up to a G4 1GHz, via a Sonnet Crescendo. And let us not forget the A/V inputs on the back; I've used it to capture stills of movies, such as the Kitty Kat from Shrek...it can only do max 640x480, but that is good enough for me.

I have to say, in my opinion, the PCI Power Mac towers, esp. the 8600 and 9600, were some of the best computers ever made...

Do you know if the 8600 runs?