I'm playing a lot with my iMacs lately. One will be restored to original (32mb ram, 2mb vram, 4gb hdd, 8.1), decapped, cleaned and put into long term storage.
The second iMac will be beefed up, i already got it to 6 MB VRAM and 2 x 128mb ram (my 256mb PC100 SODIMM stick is seen as 128mb only, damn). It runs 9.2 very smoothly now. I found a 6GB IDE drive, which is a lot faster than the original 4GB. I believe i should try the IDE to CF card adapter that runs Win98 in another computer right now. I need to get a bigger CF card though, maybe 4 GB, the 512MB i have is a bit small for 9.2.
The third iMac is broken. It's CPU card only accepts one ram stick. Also the picture sometimes falls into a thin line for a few moments. Either i sell it or i'll make it into a tiny server rack. There should be enough space in there for three laptops (at home i use Thinkpad X61 laptops for servers, they don't eat much energy, are cheap and come with their own UPS, yet have dual cores, plenty of ram and support proper virtualisation), power distribution, switches, DSL router and all that.
I just received a 20 MHz crystal and am ready to get my Q650 to 40 MHz. It's ram is already maxed out, but i could use some larger disks and more vram. I'm also on the lookout for a cdrom and the proper bezel.
A lot more needs to be done of course, but i have only so much time for it.
The second iMac will be beefed up, i already got it to 6 MB VRAM and 2 x 128mb ram (my 256mb PC100 SODIMM stick is seen as 128mb only, damn). It runs 9.2 very smoothly now. I found a 6GB IDE drive, which is a lot faster than the original 4GB. I believe i should try the IDE to CF card adapter that runs Win98 in another computer right now. I need to get a bigger CF card though, maybe 4 GB, the 512MB i have is a bit small for 9.2.
The third iMac is broken. It's CPU card only accepts one ram stick. Also the picture sometimes falls into a thin line for a few moments. Either i sell it or i'll make it into a tiny server rack. There should be enough space in there for three laptops (at home i use Thinkpad X61 laptops for servers, they don't eat much energy, are cheap and come with their own UPS, yet have dual cores, plenty of ram and support proper virtualisation), power distribution, switches, DSL router and all that.
I just received a 20 MHz crystal and am ready to get my Q650 to 40 MHz. It's ram is already maxed out, but i could use some larger disks and more vram. I'm also on the lookout for a cdrom and the proper bezel.
A lot more needs to be done of course, but i have only so much time for it.