What was your first experience with a Power Mac G4? Where, when, why?
I had only used one occasionally until 2005 when I bought a Digital Audio 466 from the University of Colorado surplus auction. I spent all day at that auction (literally from 9 AM until 5 PM) fending off predators and resellers to buy just one G4. The surplus had oodles of the things including Sawtooth, GigE, and Digital Audio machines. The G4 came pretty stock and with a wiped hard drive. A couple hundred dollars later, and it became a dual 1 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, 650 GB+ storage, Radeon 9600 Pro power house. Along the way, I had to send two motherboards and a power supply to the great big trash can in the sky. But now the whole kit is sitting in a Power Mac 8600 case as a nice little sleeper.
Well, how about you? What are your experiences with your first G4?
Peace,
Drew
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Power to the PowerPC!
I had only used one occasionally until 2005 when I bought a Digital Audio 466 from the University of Colorado surplus auction. I spent all day at that auction (literally from 9 AM until 5 PM) fending off predators and resellers to buy just one G4. The surplus had oodles of the things including Sawtooth, GigE, and Digital Audio machines. The G4 came pretty stock and with a wiped hard drive. A couple hundred dollars later, and it became a dual 1 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, 650 GB+ storage, Radeon 9600 Pro power house. Along the way, I had to send two motherboards and a power supply to the great big trash can in the sky. But now the whole kit is sitting in a Power Mac 8600 case as a nice little sleeper.
Well, how about you? What are your experiences with your first G4?
Peace,
Drew
_________________
Power to the PowerPC!