I agree that NUM 3.2.x was excellent (and still is) for what it can do with 030-processor Macs, and 040 Macs running no higher than 7.6.1. Received wisdom at one time was that NUM…

I think because on Windows it installs all this weird stuff and does all this other crap you don't really need. I just simply booted off the ZIP disk and ran Disk Doctor and it was…

I haven't used it on Macs in years, but on PCs at least, it is a very, very, very, very, very bad, bad, bad, bad, bad thing. NUM 3.x used to be good back in the days of System 7...…

Norton is bad? It rescued my 7200 the other day. (I have Norton 6 on a ZIP Disk). It was booting to this Error 41 or 47 or something, and then when I booted off the ZIP Disk the h…

Nice haul, I still need a 9.1 cd for my legit OS collection. I think you can only upgrade to 8.6 from 8.5, 8.1 is a dead end. Click to expand... Yep, you're right. For OS 8.5 u…

Super Awesome!

Fantastic ;D

Excellent, it's always great when you get good things for next to nothing!

Nice haul, I still need a 9.1 cd for my legit OS collection. I think you can only upgrade to 8.6 from 8.5, 8.1 is a dead end.

nice one on the OS 8.6 cd! i hate having to upgrade my way frm 8.1 to 8.6 everytime i want to install 8.6.

It's easier just to dig the jumpers out of the block with a pin, I found they came out quite easily. I was changing it to make it accept the B&W's CPU though, personally I …

I went to the Goodwill Clearance Center today. This is where they take all the stuff that doesn't sell elsewhere. They put it all in bins, and put the bins out on tables. When the …

The beige is easy to overclock. All you need is a jumper block from a faster machine and hope the CPU can handle it.

A 233Mhz G3 seems to be very slow for OSX to me. I would run OS 9.2.2 on it and dig out some old OS 9 Apps for it, the thing would fly. A little more RAM would probably be nice, al…

Any thoughts as to what to do with it now we know the specs? I am leaning more towards parent's computer. Click to expand... Get a little bit more Ram and put Tiger on it - …

if you have the modem in the slot on the personality card, why would you ever need a modem serial port? / My performa 6200 had one Click to expand... Because you might have mor…

Any thoughts as to what to do with it now we know the specs? I am leaning more towards parent's computer. Click to expand... Get a little bit more Ram and put Tiger on it - …

Alright, had the chance to boot it. Looks to be a video editor machine. Has a 100mb image of commercials, dunno if they were made by them or not, but the HD is labled "E. D. Jacobs…

Yes, the 8600 has internal video. None of the 6 slot PCI Macs (9500, 9600) have built in video or any A/V functions so those ports are blocked off.

Nope, 9600s don't have internal video. I think the 8600 does, and can confirm that the G3MT definately does.

Yes, there is most likely a port behind it. I suppose apple didn't want people to connect their old external modems and have it conflict with the internal modem, that's what the pr…

so there is a second serial port behind that? I will open her up tomorrow and look. oh, forgot to mention it's the minitower, not the desktop yeah, the modem looked to be on a ca…

No no no, what I meant was, if you have the modem in the slot on the personality card, why would you ever need a modem serial port? That's why apple put blanks over the modem port…

I've never heard of a beige with a single serial port. There are two built in to the motherboard. The modem lives on the PERCH card, so that's not it. What the hell, punch out t…

a single serial port (wtf? the other one has a blank), a built in modem Click to expand... Just answered your own question I'm willing to bet the serial port with the blank…