Just won a Power Mac 7500/100 on eBay!

[djhaloeight]

I just won a Power Mac 7500/100 with a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card. Comes with keyboard, mouse, mousepad, and extra RAM.  Also has original box for G3 upgrade and the original 601 too.

Got it for $56, plus 30 shipping.  I'm stoked….especially glad its got a G3 upgrade.

 

[Unknown_K]

Anybody else bid on it?

 

[djhaloeight]

3 other people from what I saw.

 

[Sherry Haibara]

Congratulations!
I can't say I'm a fan of this design, but it's nice that it has the G3 upgrade. 500 mhz should be more than enough to power OS 9 to its fullest!

 

[oneboyarmy]

I saw that! Pretty exciting!

 

[ArmorAlley]

These machines make great bridge machines. I have a PM 7300 (with an 800MHz G3 card) that I use for this purpose.

Get yourself an Adaptec 19160 | SATA I | ATA-133 card, an ATI Radeon 7000 (or a 10/100 ethernet card, if it is to be server) and a Sonnet FW+USB card and you have a nice mac that can run System 7.5.5 very well and Mac OS 9.2.2 without complaint. Added to that, 1GB RAM is not that expensive, nor is a DVD drive (that being said SCSI DVD-Rs don't come cheaply).

With a copy of AppleShare 4 and AppleShare 6 you have a great little home server.

 

[trag]

I think the SIIG JU-2NE012 card might be a good choice.  It combine USB 2.0, Firewire and 10/100 ethernet on one card.  There are a couple on Ebay for ~$15 at the moment.  The JU-2NG012 or JU-2NG011 would be a better choice, as they have gigabit ethernet, but I have not been able to find any of those available for a very long time.

Also, I've never tried the JU-2NE012 so I can not say for certain that the three chipsets on-board work well on the Mac.  The three on the gigabit versions do, but I have not tried the 10/100 version.  As long as the USB chipset is by VIA you're probably okay...

I think the ideal set of cards for a 7500, absent some special need, would be something like an Acard AEC-6820M (ATA-133 support for four drives), the aforementioned JU-2NG012 providing USB 2.0 (or 1.0 under OS9), Firewire and gigabit ethernet, and an ATI Radeon 7000 or maybe a 9200.

Add an 800 MHz or 1 GHz PowerLogix G3 card, and that's about as fast as the hardware can be made to go...

In the photos on Ebay I can see a RealTek 8139 for the ethernet chip (gigabit version uses 8169) and a TI T43AB something or other, which I believe is a supported Firewire chip.   The USB chip has a big sticker on it.   As I recall, folks used to recommend TI for the Firewire chip and NEC for the USB chip.  IIRC.

 

[djhaloeight]

The seller mentioned to me in a message that theres a USB card installed in one of the slots but it doesn't work.  I'm gonna do some poking around and see if it needs an extension or something along those lines.  If I'm not mistaken, it can be upgraded to a G4.  I'm sure the 500MHz G3 in there currently will be just fine for OS 9.

 

[trag]

That should be, "as long as the chipset for USB is ***NOT*** by Via, you're probably okay."

 

[djhaloeight]

So I received the 7500 in the mail yesterday.  Set it up and WOW….it is REALLY snappy with Mac OS 8.5 and that 500MHz G3 card.  It seriously feels faster than my old B&W G3.  I know its probably because I've been used to using my LC III for a while, but still…I'm extremely happy with the performance of it. 

 

[uniserver]

i have a 7500 too, only mine was sent USPS standard post from Oregon to Michigan.  In a brown box with no packing.

needless to say it was a box of broken parts when i received it.

I was able to glue most of it back together, had to throw away the outter plastic case.

it did come with a 333mhz G3 card.    I won it for like 25 bucks, and it works, still so i guess no complaints.

I use it to set up my 73gig SCA, SCSI drives for 68k mac's. and its my local talk server.

 

[Unknown_K]

Do you guys like the Beige G3 desktop as much? Pretty much the same case plastics.

 

[djhaloeight]

i have a 7500 too, only mine was sent USPS standard post from Oregon to Michigan.  In a brown box with no packing.

needless to say it was a box of broken parts when i received it.

I was able to glue most of it back together, had to throw away the outter plastic case.

it did come with a 333mhz G3 card.    I won it for like 25 bucks, and it works, still so i guess no complaints.

I use it to set up my 73gig SCA, SCSI drives for 68k mac's. and its my local talk server.

Dude, my 7500 arrived with a bunch of broken plastic pieces inside too.  The case and all all the other plastic is seriously seriously brittle as hell.  I'm surprised.  Older Macs didn't have this problem.