Was in the Savers today looking for a VHS-C cam I saw a few weeks ago and for which a need has developed. Nothing on that front, darn.
Looking around, wander a bit.
Look up, boom:
PowerMac G4. Reasonably nice condition, $15.
ok well I'll look at it.
Has RAM, incl. unmatched extra sticks, and hard disk. Looks intact, dusty but clean.
Take it home.
It's a QS'02 single 800/256k, 1GB, 32-meg Radeon, 40GB, DVD-RW, Zip250. Ideal OS 9 machine.
Clean and vacuum it out. Turn it on, boots right into a clean install of 10.3.5. Feels fast-ish, but al clean OS installs do. Reformat with eMac/800 CD, runs fine, but I'm downloading the QS'02 CD now, that should be a bit better overall.
Not totally sure what I'll do with it, really, but I know something I'm Very(TM) looking forward to poking around some of my old DVDs.
In other news: I finally had the chance to pull the Multiple Scan 20 from @just.in.time out of its box and put it on a shelf. Works beautifully with my Beige G3. I'll probably move this machine to where the beige is and move the beige and the 16"MCD to my bedroom.
For the sake of organizing things, I might pop the 2-port SATA card I picked up at Re-PC in Seattle into this machine and use that to collect data while I either re-organize it and burn it back out onto new CDs and DVDs or put it on a file server. The other thing I can and intend to do is put some stuff on external USB hard disks.
Positive impressions of the hardware, it feels like the ultimate OS 9 machine. Faster hardware isn't particularly practical or worthwhile until you start doing things you should really just consider doing in OS X for stability and (further) performance reasons. 3d and technical computing stuff in particular, but also HDV would be possible on this machine under OS X, but probably not possible or easy under 9.
I've been posting pictures to fedi: https://cronk.stenoweb.net/@coryw/100053532769827705 -
Looking around, wander a bit.
Look up, boom:
PowerMac G4. Reasonably nice condition, $15.
ok well I'll look at it.
Has RAM, incl. unmatched extra sticks, and hard disk. Looks intact, dusty but clean.
Take it home.
It's a QS'02 single 800/256k, 1GB, 32-meg Radeon, 40GB, DVD-RW, Zip250. Ideal OS 9 machine.
Clean and vacuum it out. Turn it on, boots right into a clean install of 10.3.5. Feels fast-ish, but al clean OS installs do. Reformat with eMac/800 CD, runs fine, but I'm downloading the QS'02 CD now, that should be a bit better overall.
Not totally sure what I'll do with it, really, but I know something I'm Very(TM) looking forward to poking around some of my old DVDs.
In other news: I finally had the chance to pull the Multiple Scan 20 from @just.in.time out of its box and put it on a shelf. Works beautifully with my Beige G3. I'll probably move this machine to where the beige is and move the beige and the 16"MCD to my bedroom.
For the sake of organizing things, I might pop the 2-port SATA card I picked up at Re-PC in Seattle into this machine and use that to collect data while I either re-organize it and burn it back out onto new CDs and DVDs or put it on a file server. The other thing I can and intend to do is put some stuff on external USB hard disks.
Positive impressions of the hardware, it feels like the ultimate OS 9 machine. Faster hardware isn't particularly practical or worthwhile until you start doing things you should really just consider doing in OS X for stability and (further) performance reasons. 3d and technical computing stuff in particular, but also HDV would be possible on this machine under OS X, but probably not possible or easy under 9.
I've been posting pictures to fedi: https://cronk.stenoweb.net/@coryw/100053532769827705 -