Sweet pickup! I snagged a graphite recently and I can’t wait to upgrade it as far as it will go.
I’m not sure how many Macs you currently have, but here are some ideas:
1. It appears to have a built in ZIP Drive, if you have an external SCSI zip you could use it as a bridge machine.
2. Old games! Provided yours has a decent GPU you could have hours of fun running the latest and greatest of 2002.
3. Try to use it for 2002-era productivity tasks, such as video editing, photo editing, etc.
4. It will run OS 9, so all of the above extends to Classic Mac OS software as well!
5. Put Linux on it and see how far you can push it with modern tasks.
Many possibilities, enjoy it!
Thank’s for the tips
. I have mostly 68k compacts, but also a G4 iBook mostly used by my daughter to play old kids games (she loves it).
Sadly no other zip drives, and I have most others network so not really in a need of a bridge either.
Games could be fun, I wonder if it could pull of running Quake 2, it should I guess.
As for creative tasks, well, I’ve used most models since the first iMac in my profession (graphic design) and well, even a fully decked out dual G5 was slow as molasses brand new haha. It’s incredible how much faster (comparably) a regular Macbook Pro is today.
Linux could be fun, haven’t played around with that too much (outside of tinkering with rpi’s).
I just have this weird feeling that I can’t really justify burning so many kW’s getting the poor performance I would out of this haha. Maybe my climate anxiety is to big