John8520
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I'm out of town for the holidays, and the past few days have been slow. Checked local listings for anything interesting, and sure enough, $10 G3 MT only about 20 minutes away on LetGo. Drove out and picked it up this morning, haven't tested it yet (all my gear is at the house) but it's in excellent condition with no dust.
Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/IdSIxCwKemrlasL43
If the info on the back panel is to be believed, it's a 266 with 6GB drive, 24x CD, Zip100, and wings card. There's a 128MB Apple stick and two matching 32MB sticks. The hard drive is original in the above-PSU mount, which is nice to have, my previous MTs were missing this mount and had to use a front bay. It has 6MB VRAM total, but I'm not sure if the GPU is the Rage II+ or the newer Rage Pro. The date on the serial sticker is 6/10/1998, and EveryMac says that they switched to the Rage Pro in May '98 but I haven't found those reports to be completely reliable.
I plan to clock it to 300MHz, bump it to at least 384MB with stuff I have lying around, then maybe put a Rage 128 in it if the internal GPU can't drive 1280x1024. Probably run 8.1 or 8.6 on it.
Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/IdSIxCwKemrlasL43
If the info on the back panel is to be believed, it's a 266 with 6GB drive, 24x CD, Zip100, and wings card. There's a 128MB Apple stick and two matching 32MB sticks. The hard drive is original in the above-PSU mount, which is nice to have, my previous MTs were missing this mount and had to use a front bay. It has 6MB VRAM total, but I'm not sure if the GPU is the Rage II+ or the newer Rage Pro. The date on the serial sticker is 6/10/1998, and EveryMac says that they switched to the Rage Pro in May '98 but I haven't found those reports to be completely reliable.
I plan to clock it to 300MHz, bump it to at least 384MB with stuff I have lying around, then maybe put a Rage 128 in it if the internal GPU can't drive 1280x1024. Probably run 8.1 or 8.6 on it.