ClassicHasClass
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So today I picked up a blueberry iMac G3 (tray-loading 333MHz) as a board and system spare for my strawberry iMac which I plan to put in the music/guest room, but it came with a bonus ... not only was it in the proper (if wrong colour) iMac G3 box, it also sported a 600MHz Sonnet HARMONi card!
For those unfamiliar with the HARMONi, it provides a 500MHz or 600MHz G3 plus a varying amount of L2 cache and a FireWire port to any of the tray-loading iMac G3s only. This is the only way to have a 600MHz iMac G3 in a colour that doesn't suck; the strawberry/grape/etc. slot loaders can take more memory and have a better GPU, but the fastest colourful slot loader with a FireWire port is only 400MHz. And I prefer tray-loading CD-ROMs in general.
So tomorrow I'm going to yank the RAM from the WallStreet I and merge it with the HARMONi, and transplant it to the strawberry iMac. It will run 10.2.8 and 9.2.2 in the music room: on the 9 side, Classilla and ProTools, and on the 10.2 side, Classilla, GarageBand and Vidi to ... connect the Yamaha CX5M over FireWire! (using a capture box)
I told you it was a music room.
For those unfamiliar with the HARMONi, it provides a 500MHz or 600MHz G3 plus a varying amount of L2 cache and a FireWire port to any of the tray-loading iMac G3s only. This is the only way to have a 600MHz iMac G3 in a colour that doesn't suck; the strawberry/grape/etc. slot loaders can take more memory and have a better GPU, but the fastest colourful slot loader with a FireWire port is only 400MHz. And I prefer tray-loading CD-ROMs in general.
So tomorrow I'm going to yank the RAM from the WallStreet I and merge it with the HARMONi, and transplant it to the strawberry iMac. It will run 10.2.8 and 9.2.2 in the music room: on the 9 side, Classilla and ProTools, and on the 10.2 side, Classilla, GarageBand and Vidi to ... connect the Yamaha CX5M over FireWire! (using a capture box)
I told you it was a music room.