I bought mine, the first full tower (and Old World Power) Mac that I had owned, in mid-2003. It came from a pre-press company, and its price of AUD200 (which was my offer, not their asking) now seems over-generous. Its RAM complement (144MB) and processor speed (132MHz) were miserable, but it had a Radius ThunderColor 30/1600 video card (natch, given its previous use), and was in excellent cosmetic condition.
I replaced the RAM, eventually reaching 1024MB, which was distinct overkill, and certainly got VM's knickers into a knot until I assigned enough RAM to cache to pacify VM. Even then I rarely use VM in any machine unless I am forced to do so. With a MAXpowr G3/400MHz daughter card and new logic board (both NOS), 24x CD-ROM drive, 2 x IBM 9GB and 1 x IBM 18GB 68-pin HDDs, Adaptec 2940U2W, combo FireWire/USB card, ATI Rage Pro and AsantéFAST NIC, and running OS 9.1 it drove a 17-in. Studio display. Now that I have taken apart and upgraded 50-odd x500 towers of that design I have to consider the task just plain tedious rather than a pain. I have more reservation about the design and plastics of the front pressswitch, removing and replacing which is always fraught with risk of breaking the retaining tangs.
The 9500 was a valuable member of my LAN for three years, as backup for the System installations, and download/distributor for the new software, for a dozen or more 68K Macs, as well as being my principal OS 9 machine when I put the iMacs under OS X at the end of 2004. Gotta love the Studio Display for wave editing of sound. Then I acquired an 8600/200 in mid 2006. As a 9600/400 now, that Mac wears much of the goodies from the 9500, which is at the moment, like an actor, 'resting' between engagements.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8
I replaced the RAM, eventually reaching 1024MB, which was distinct overkill, and certainly got VM's knickers into a knot until I assigned enough RAM to cache to pacify VM. Even then I rarely use VM in any machine unless I am forced to do so. With a MAXpowr G3/400MHz daughter card and new logic board (both NOS), 24x CD-ROM drive, 2 x IBM 9GB and 1 x IBM 18GB 68-pin HDDs, Adaptec 2940U2W, combo FireWire/USB card, ATI Rage Pro and AsantéFAST NIC, and running OS 9.1 it drove a 17-in. Studio display. Now that I have taken apart and upgraded 50-odd x500 towers of that design I have to consider the task just plain tedious rather than a pain. I have more reservation about the design and plastics of the front pressswitch, removing and replacing which is always fraught with risk of breaking the retaining tangs.
The 9500 was a valuable member of my LAN for three years, as backup for the System installations, and download/distributor for the new software, for a dozen or more 68K Macs, as well as being my principal OS 9 machine when I put the iMacs under OS X at the end of 2004. Gotta love the Studio Display for wave editing of sound. Then I acquired an 8600/200 in mid 2006. As a 9600/400 now, that Mac wears much of the goodies from the 9500, which is at the moment, like an actor, 'resting' between engagements.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8