I know some people here are kinda bashing the 7200, but I think it's a damn fine machine. Then again, I might be biased, since it was the first PowerMac in the house (And I owned it!!! it was solely mine!) as well as the the first machine in the house with a CD-ROM, and the first PC too! (mine had a PC Compatability card. 166Mhz Pentium w/ 32MB RAM) and It was also the first G3 (I bit the dust and got the card
) Sadly, it was also the first machine taken when we got broken into :S
I loved that machine to death. I want one just like it, and I think it's a mighty fine machine. I had the cache module and the VRAM maxed out. I even thought of taking a VooDoo and flashing it to work with the mac (my brother had two cards. One was flashable)
And if I ever want a Classic machine that was PCI, i would rather have an upgraded 7200, than any modern PowerPC. It was a trouper. I even figured out how to get the system to 9.2.2!!
Sucks it was stolen though... I really was mad at the person that did that (they got caught like 3 months later, but they trashed the system) and when I got it back and it was a mess. My heart sank that over the 4 years I had it, It was a remarkable machine, and to look at it, with a large gaping hole in the motherboard (someone drove a drill right through it) and my G3 card snapped in half, i was heart broken. I had spent about $1k getting it to my dream machine. And it was a dud. I ended up writing it off on insurance and getting a G3 Clamshell, but I still remember the 7200.
Oh well... Sorry to reminisce, but I think someone needs to speak up about how they liked the machine. It doesn't seem to be getting any love around here :'(