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 - …

Ah, I see that you've answered my question here cj. Why do all that work when you can use a PCMCIA card Click to expand... Have you seen the price of those cards? Besid…

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…

Damn! Sorry Bunsen, I wish I'd seen this thread earlier as I have a spare 400MHz Lombard logic board w/DVD decoder that you could have had for next to nothing...

Why do all that work when you can use a PCMCIA card to decode DVDs? Or were you planning to go OSX all the way? I know that won't work on X, just OS9....

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.

The Lombard 333 @ 433 was sheer luck; I tried it on a whim as 433 involves a least amount of resistor swappery, and it was always fine. Might as well try it Bunsen, and if not 400…

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…

Yes, the decoder is a chip on the mobo, but a 400MHz mobo isn't 400Mhz unless you have a 400Mhz processor module for it, and those things are _expensive_ A 333Mhz module on a 400M…

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…

From what I'm reading, the DVD decoder is a dedicated chip on the 400MHz motherboard. Now I just need to hunt down a cheap DVD drive and some RAM, and a bigger HD, and a TV tuner,…

Oh what the hell. I just ordered the 400MHz DVD playing logic board. $44 US inc shipping, and the $AU is 90c at the moment. Click to expand... oerrr... you know that's just 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…

Nice pick up!

Didn't work. Mind you it's got a Japanese keyboard and caps lock and control have swapped places, so I dunno. Meanwhile I've pulled the battery. It booted into OS X with only 12…

Oh crap. What's the key combo to force OS 9 on startup? Click to expand... On my G3 it's just hold Option as soon as you start it up until you see the blank grey screen come o…

I had a Lombard 333 which amazingly overclocked to 433Mhz Click to expand... As Keanu says ... "Woah" Details?

Oh crap. What's the key combo to force OS 9 on startup?

Oh what the hell. I just ordered the 400MHz DVD playing logic board. $44 US inc shipping, and the $AU is 90c at the moment.