Applemac G3 - what are they good for?
10 October 2005, 09:30 PM
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Applemac G3 - what are they good for?
Got one land on my desk at work today - someone has chored the hard drive out of it so got to locate another and then put an OS on it, think work have OS9 around somewhere. Only other thing I know about it is its 512mb of ram and some crappy Ati Rage 128 4mb video card.
Apart from learning the OS (last Mac I used was ancient and was running OS8 years ago) is there anything else its worth keeping on my desk for? Whats a G3 in PC terms? PIII equivalent?
Or is it only good for a door stop/shelf/foot rest?
Apart from learning the OS (last Mac I used was ancient and was running OS8 years ago) is there anything else its worth keeping on my desk for? Whats a G3 in PC terms? PIII equivalent?
Or is it only good for a door stop/shelf/foot rest?
10 October 2005, 09:35 PM
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Bit long in the tooth now these days to be honest. Blue and white and not a beige one I hope. The B&W are still OK but pretty slow now and the beige are errr. not much cop.
Not bad for running a scanner or something where its not being used that much. If you don't want it let me know as I've got one with an iffy graphics card or logic bopard not too sure yet.
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Not bad for running a scanner or something where its not being used that much. If you don't want it let me know as I've got one with an iffy graphics card or logic bopard not too sure yet.
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10 October 2005, 09:52 PM
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Beige G3s were 233 or 266mhz IIRC.
It wont really be much use with OSX - 9.2.1 would be fine but then what will you do with it? Excel/Word/Photoshop will be OK. You'll be stuck with IE5.2 or less which utterly and completely sucks big time. Netscape is you're only other option which is pretty poor.
It will happily run Filemaker if you want a database.
I suspect it will run OSX Panther maybe... I am typing this on a 333mhz g3 laptop with 320mb and 10.3.9 and it is bearable.
You can get processor upgrades for them but with the price of Mac Minis being £350 ish it's hardly much point.
When you work out what to do with it, let me know, I have a 2 beige G3s, a B&W G3 and an early G4 I don't know what to do with but can't bring myself to chuck em...
It wont really be much use with OSX - 9.2.1 would be fine but then what will you do with it? Excel/Word/Photoshop will be OK. You'll be stuck with IE5.2 or less which utterly and completely sucks big time. Netscape is you're only other option which is pretty poor.
It will happily run Filemaker if you want a database.
I suspect it will run OSX Panther maybe... I am typing this on a 333mhz g3 laptop with 320mb and 10.3.9 and it is bearable.
You can get processor upgrades for them but with the price of Mac Minis being £350 ish it's hardly much point.
When you work out what to do with it, let me know, I have a 2 beige G3s, a B&W G3 and an early G4 I don't know what to do with but can't bring myself to chuck em...
10 October 2005, 09:56 PM
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Yellow Dog Linux !
G3 + HD
All depends on what you had in mind for it but you could try YDL which will provide all manner of Linux services - DHCP, DNS, Proxy, File and Print, Firewall etc...
But if it is going to cost more than £100 put your money into a Mini Mac !
rich
All depends on what you had in mind for it but you could try YDL which will provide all manner of Linux services - DHCP, DNS, Proxy, File and Print, Firewall etc...
But if it is going to cost more than £100 put your money into a Mini Mac !
rich
Originally Posted by AllanB
Bit long in the tooth now these days to be honest. Blue and white and not a beige one I hope. The B&W are still OK but pretty slow now and the beige are errr. not much cop.
Not bad for running a scanner or something where its not being used that much. If you don't want it let me know as I've got one with an iffy graphics card or logic bopard not too sure yet.
AllanB
Not bad for running a scanner or something where its not being used that much. If you don't want it let me know as I've got one with an iffy graphics card or logic bopard not too sure yet.
AllanB
10 October 2005, 10:01 PM
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Ah I can't take it home from work - against company policy, all machines have to be given to charity not to staff. So it was just to have something on my desk to play about with really. And yes its the two tone version. 3 of them came back from the business so me and two of the other lads stuck them on our desks to mess about with.
11 October 2005, 12:33 PM
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YDL rocks !
Sure is ! and if it's good enough for the US Navy sub's it should be OK !
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08...vy_buys_linux/
A G3 with lots of RAM and left up 24/7 should be a useful little box for all manner of tasks
Anyway for downloads try these for size . . .
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/re...ownloads.shtml
But check your hardware is OK here
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/su...are/breakdown/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08...vy_buys_linux/
A G3 with lots of RAM and left up 24/7 should be a useful little box for all manner of tasks
Anyway for downloads try these for size . . .
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/re...ownloads.shtml
But check your hardware is OK here
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/su...are/breakdown/
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Like the Linux idea - is it downloadable?
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11 October 2005, 12:40 PM
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Is your early G4 a 400Mhz model ? In which case go for YDL too . . .
SlimServer makes a nice little addtion to the home network so install Tiger with iPhoto and iTunes/SlimServer as a home media server platform.
Turn on the Fax in system preferences and redirect all incoming Faxes to your own email account !
Or just fill with 160Gb HD's and use it as a backup/FTP box - v. useful if like me you need something to dump and grab large files from.
Just load up the RAM from eBay and leave on 24/7
rich
SlimServer makes a nice little addtion to the home network so install Tiger with iPhoto and iTunes/SlimServer as a home media server platform.
Turn on the Fax in system preferences and redirect all incoming Faxes to your own email account !
Or just fill with 160Gb HD's and use it as a backup/FTP box - v. useful if like me you need something to dump and grab large files from.
Just load up the RAM from eBay and leave on 24/7
rich
Originally Posted by RichB
Beige G3s were 233 or 266mhz IIRC.
It wont really be much use with OSX - 9.2.1 would be fine but then what will you do with it? Excel/Word/Photoshop will be OK. You'll be stuck with IE5.2 or less which utterly and completely sucks big time. Netscape is you're only other option which is pretty poor.
It will happily run Filemaker if you want a database.
I suspect it will run OSX Panther maybe... I am typing this on a 333mhz g3 laptop with 320mb and 10.3.9 and it is bearable.
You can get processor upgrades for them but with the price of Mac Minis being £350 ish it's hardly much point.
When you work out what to do with it, let me know, I have a 2 beige G3s, a B&W G3 and an early G4 I don't know what to do with but can't bring myself to chuck em...
It wont really be much use with OSX - 9.2.1 would be fine but then what will you do with it? Excel/Word/Photoshop will be OK. You'll be stuck with IE5.2 or less which utterly and completely sucks big time. Netscape is you're only other option which is pretty poor.
It will happily run Filemaker if you want a database.
I suspect it will run OSX Panther maybe... I am typing this on a 333mhz g3 laptop with 320mb and 10.3.9 and it is bearable.
You can get processor upgrades for them but with the price of Mac Minis being £350 ish it's hardly much point.
When you work out what to do with it, let me know, I have a 2 beige G3s, a B&W G3 and an early G4 I don't know what to do with but can't bring myself to chuck em...
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I just got hold of a job lot of imac G3s 266-500 range which have got panther on, Im knocking em out at £80-£100 if anyone wants one (varying processors, RAM and HDD)
Ones I have checked so far run panther ok.
Ones I have checked so far run panther ok.
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