My first ever conquest

[madmax_2069]

Hello guys and gals

I just had my very first conquest

This is what i thought that never would happen since the people my city seems to never throw out any computers (let alone Macs).

But yesterday that changed, if it hadn't been for the blue puck mouse hanging out of the dumpster i never would have known.

What i found was a 300mhz B&W G3 with mouse and keyboard and a 17" CRT studio display.

The B&W works like a charm but nothing to really write home about in terms of software on the HDD. It is still running its original OS 8.5.1

The monitor does power on but there is no way to connect it to the B&W since the video card in it has S-video in and out, RCA video in and the old Mac video connector DB-15 (like what is on the Performa 475) the video card is a 3D rage Pro that has a sodimm slot for expanding its vram. It has the stock amount of ram (64mb), stock HDD.

The Macs case (on the sides) and the monitors case is a bit marked up but nothing really harsh.

 

[ppuskari]

Nice Score!

A free Mac is better than no mac at all!

Besides I do like the blue plastic logo on the sides!

Find a Radeon 7000 pci or NV GeForce 6200 pci and mac flash it and use that monitor too.

Congrats!

 

[Bunsen]

Even a Rage 128+ would do the trick, and let you play DVDs (with a DVD drive). IIRC, the card you have now is lower than what came with the B&W originally, so someone must have downgraded it at some point, possibly because they wanted the S-Video/RCA I/O.

Great score, and welcome to the clubhouse

 

[madmax_2069]

Yeah i really like the blue and frosted plastic with the G3 shadow on the sides, i like that case better then my Digital Audio case.

But i do not really have the room for it, I am going to have to let it go (sell it).

Even a Rage 128+ would do the trick, and let you play DVDs (with a DVD drive). IIRC, the card you have now is lower than what came with the B&W originally, so someone must have downgraded it at some point, possibly because they wanted the S-Video/RCA I/O.
Great score, and welcome to the clubhouse

Yeah i was leaning towards the videocard was from another Mac, but what Mac would it have been from.

I do have a Yikes which is just a G4 upgraded B&W G3 that lacks the ADB port and maybe a few mobo changes, I do have a radeon 7000 in my Yikes. I do have the card from the Yikes i could slap in the B&W floating around somewhere in storage.

The only thing still i have not checked out is the monitor, even though it powers up don't mean that it is in full order.

And thanks for the welcome

When i look back at it i laugh at how i seen the puck mouse just hanging out of the dumpster like it was wanting to be found.

 

[IPNixon]

IIRC, the card you have now is lower than what came with the B&W originally, so someone must have downgraded it at some point, possibly because they wanted the S-Video/RCA I/O.

My first B&W off eBay (pretty sure it was a 300MHz) came with this same card

 

[madmax_2069]

Humm interesting, i wonder if it was a option to buy with it or something.

 

[IPNixon]

I wouldn't doubt it...maybe it was a lower-end option for people who didn't want or need a crazy graphics card.

 

[Cory5412]

I don't remember it being an option when those machines were first being trotted out. At the time, essentially, either you got a 16mb Rage 128, or you got a 16mb Rage 128, and there wasn't much in between, at all. That didn't stop ATi from selling older cards with vidcap/tvtuner along with newer/better cards as add-ons, but it wasn't available that way from Apple.

It also may have been something someone added to a previous machine then transitioned up to the b/w when they got that, either to get the video capture functionality or to get a different display connector, as it seems like it worked fine and in OS 8.5-and-then-9, framebuffer performance was honestly not as big a deal as it is these days with OS X.

 

[Unknown_K]

There was a lower end ATI card sold to schools in B&W G3's (my first B&W came with one, forget the model now), retail was the Rage 128 with or without the DVD decoder I think.

Just looked here:

http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html

They mention a Rage Pro for some school models with video capture (sounds like what I had).