PowerMac G4 x 3 Score (Sonnet, etc.)

[ried]

Feeling a little bit like I won the Retro Computing Nerd Lottery or something, but found 3 PowerMac G4s from a local seller on Craigslist.

1. PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
   1. Sonnet G4 1GHz
   2. Sonnet Tempo ATA133 PCI card
   3. Stealth Serial Port
   4. SuperDrive upgrade, Max RAM, FW & USB PCI cards, etc.
2. PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
   1. Sonnet G4 1.8GHz
   2. Sonnet Tempo ATA133 PCI card
   3. ATI Radeon 9800
   4. SuperDrive upgrade, Max RAM, FW & USB PCI cards, etc.
3. PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)
   1. Sonnet G4 1.8GHz
   2. Sonnet Tempo ATA133 PCI card
   3. NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX
   4. SuperDrive upgrade, Max RAM, FW & USB PCI cards, etc.

All for $180 total ($60/each).

 

[ArmorAlley]

Well done! It's great to have windfalls, isn't it?

I expect that you'll get lots of PMs asking if you really want all 3.
You do have a machine that you can now use to trade for pretty much any other system you'd like to have, assuming you find someone who has both the system you'd like to have and wants what you have.

You could also set up a gaming LAN with these 3 machines. Any game that runs on Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.[0-4] should play nicely.

BTW, does the Stealth Serial Port work under Mac OS X or are the lack of Mac OS X drivers for the devices in question more the problem?

 

[MrFahrenheit]

Wow! That’s an impressive deal for some really awesome machines! Congrats.

 

[herd]

Wow, nice find! Do they all work? I'm glad those didn't go in the landfill. I have a 9800 Pro card and it works well with games like halo and warcraft.

 

[LaPorta]

Hot damn, that’s one of those “it never happens” finds! Well done! Now, get those all networked, load OS 9, and get some friends to play Marathon!

 

[ried]

One of the Sonnet PCI cards isn't the Tempo ATA133. Rather, it's the Tempo RAID66. Since modern SSD speeds aren't the limiting factor, and the 66 MB/sec ATA bus speed would be, that's less useful than the ATA133 used in conjunction with a single SSD.

Still a neat piece of hardware for creating a simple RAID.

 

[ried]

Wow, nice find! Do they all work? I'm glad those didn't go in the landfill. I have a 9800 Pro card and it works well with games like halo and warcraft.

The Digital Audio machine has a faulty power supply that cuts out randomly. Otherwise, they're working!

BTW, does the Stealth Serial Port work under Mac OS X or are the lack of Mac OS X drivers for the devices in question more the problem?

I'll poke around with it and find out. Have never used a Stealth Serial Port before, so this is new to me.

Good times