coius
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Sporting a 225Mhz 603e PowerPC Processor, and 256K L2 cache, this speedy little demon was picked up locally for $21.40 w/ tax. I had my eye on it for a while since I got my Beige G3 DT. I didn't have the money to get this at the time (only had so much cash) so I went back today, nearly 4 months after, and offered 1/3 what the guy was asking (he needed to clear out some of the machines since they pile up). So for $21.40, I got an AppleDesign ADB keeyboard, ADB Mouse II, PlainTalk Mic (see top of machine), 32MB RAM, 3GB HDD, 12x CD-ROM. There was no ethernet or modem, but that's fine. Been going through my box o' stuff and found some RAM that was compatible (and here I was told to throw out my old crap LOL)
I threw a D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet card in the bottom PCI slot, and a Rage128 GL 16MB into the top slot (lot's faster than the onboard Rage IIc 2MB). Bumped the RAM up to 48MB (32+16MB), Cleaned out the system. The old hard drive was chock-full of useful applications. I will go through there later since all of it seemed to be organized so randomly, it was hard to find stuff...
I also threw a 40GB ATA HDD in there (Seagate) and it is very speedy (the hard drive has 8MB cache and runs at 7200RPM)
There was very little yellowing on the case, and I have it setup installing a dual-boot system (7.6.1/8.1) and with a spare LARGE partition for data (not sure what I will do, maybe a server or something...)
The monitor in the picture did NOT come with the machine. I threw the PCI Rage128 card in to use that because the MultiSync monitors I have (1710?) will not do higher than 640x480, with no way to change the resolution.
Overall, I am happy with the acquisition. Yay for my first find in 4 months that's worth anything!!!
I threw a D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet card in the bottom PCI slot, and a Rage128 GL 16MB into the top slot (lot's faster than the onboard Rage IIc 2MB). Bumped the RAM up to 48MB (32+16MB), Cleaned out the system. The old hard drive was chock-full of useful applications. I will go through there later since all of it seemed to be organized so randomly, it was hard to find stuff...
I also threw a 40GB ATA HDD in there (Seagate) and it is very speedy (the hard drive has 8MB cache and runs at 7200RPM)
There was very little yellowing on the case, and I have it setup installing a dual-boot system (7.6.1/8.1) and with a spare LARGE partition for data (not sure what I will do, maybe a server or something...)
The monitor in the picture did NOT come with the machine. I threw the PCI Rage128 card in to use that because the MultiSync monitors I have (1710?) will not do higher than 640x480, with no way to change the resolution.
Overall, I am happy with the acquisition. Yay for my first find in 4 months that's worth anything!!!