ClassicGuyPhilly's Finds

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Wild and crazy morning

 

[jmacz]

Picked up a nice Dell for a vintage Windows machine.

Nice! I remember having one of those on my desk at work for years!

 

[CC_333]

(I'm pretty sure the graphite G4s shipped with 9, right?)

@Kouzui yes the early ones if not all. 9.2.2 runs really nice on them, give it a shot

According to EveryMac, the Sawtooth (AKA AGP Graphics) G4s officially supported 8.6 or latter, though there is mention of some of the earliest models shipping with a machine-specific variant of Mac OS 8.5. Anyone seen this?

All the other Graphite G4s shipped with 9.0.x (Gigabit, late model Sawtooth) and 9.1 (Digital Audio). Incidentally, the Digital Audio G4 was also among the first to include Mac OS X (10.0.x).

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[treellama]

My AGP G4/400, one of the earliest ones, shipped with 9.0.4. You must have had to order the day they were announced to get 8.6!

 

[joshc]

According to EveryMac, the Sawtooth (AKA AGP Graphics) G4s officially supported 8.6 or latter, though there is mention of some of the earliest models shipping with a machine-specific variant of Mac OS 8.5. Anyone seen this?

It’s the first I’ve heard of it. I am not sure that everything on EveryMac is correct. But it could well be right, there’s probably another source somewhere that might mention it.

 

[volvo242gt]

It’s the first I’ve heard of it. I am not sure that everything on EveryMac is correct. But it could well be right, there’s probably another source somewhere that might mention it.

Yeah, sometimes they get stuff wrong. Case in point, they have the model identifier for the Centris 650 listed as M1250. Sent them a photo of the label on the back of my old C650, and they thanked me, but said they'd have to verify it before changing the information on it. Guess they thought I'd used Photoshop to edit the model ID.

With respect to the Dells, we had a GX Pro in the normal desktop case, a couple GXa machines in the tower case, a GX1 in the aforementioned desktop case (was my father's machine that he and I bought at Boeing Surplus to replace his old Compaq Presario that was a pile), and a GX1 in the tower case, which is what I bought for myself as a Linux/Windows XP box. Decent machines for the time.

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Looks like we have a little Dell Optiplex fan club.

Company I was at during the end of the 90s transitioned our user workstations from HP Vectas and Kayaks to the Dell Optiplex line. I eventually oversaw a fleet of four thousand or so Optiplexes, Latitudes, and Precisions.

The GX100 was most certainly a nostalgic choice for a vintage Windows box

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Here's the current, ever growing in ridiculousness, home office desk.


The Dell Latitude laptop on the desk and the Dell XPS in the cabinet share the KB and Microsoft Trackball via a USB A/B switch. The laptop is HDMI into the monitor and the XPS is VGA. The XPS has the taller Dell speakers.

The G4 under the desk is DVI into the monitor. There is an Apple USB KB and mouse stashed above the XPS which can be taken out when needed (G4 wouldn't work with the USB A/B switch). The G4 has the smaller Dell speakers along with a sub hidden in the corner.

The GX100 also has a KB and mouse stashed above the XPS, also didn't work with the A/B. I now need a VGA A/B switch to connect the GX100 into the monitor

Finally, as seem in many other 68kmla pictures, my cats also have a place to hang while I work.