Yet another free PPC for me.

[baraktorvan]

Okay, I got the free 7300 two years ago, and on Friday I picked up a free 9600/300 upgraded with a Sonnet G4 1Ghz processor, 1.2GB of RAM, a Sonnet USB/FW400 card, an ATI Radeon 9200LT video, two 32GB SCSI UHD drives, two SATA drives (on a Sonnet TSATA) each 1 GB. The Extended II keyboard was included, as well as an ADB extension cord. There is also a SCSI Zip 250 and a SCSI DVRW (HP model).

Added to the bundle, 56 CDs of software (all PPC), the original CD that came with the machine, plus OS9 CDs, OS X CDs/DVDs.

It is in near factory condition, all clean as a whistle and not a single mark or scratch. It even has a nice wood base that was cut to exactly the size of the 9600 case for it to sit on. It comes from a retired Apple employee. 

9.2.2 is installed thanks to OS9 Helper, 10.4.11 will be done tomorrow on the other drive using XpostFacto. I have no idea what to do with drives 3 and 4 other than move music, movies, and television shows over to it. I am looking at the CDs over the next few days to determine what to install or not. 

Talk about an abundance!

 

[wthww]

That is a really great system, congrats!

//wthww

 

[EvieSigma]

Holy sh*t, all of that for free? What an impressive haul! That 9600 is basically a six slot G4 and that's just plain awesome.

 

[604ev]

Welcome to the canteen

 

[ziggy29]

Nice. I've been killing myself trying to get a Sonnet G4 upgrade of 700 MHz or better for my 7600 for less than what feels like half a million dollars, and one just falls into your lap? I'm insanely jealous.

 

[DarthNvader]

Those extra drives are a perfect home for LinuxPPC.

I still miss my old PM8600 with a Sonnet 450Mhz G3 and Voodoo3. I mostly ran Linux, and fired up OS 9 and OS X with Mac-on-Linux.

I don't know if MOL's kernel module will build with the later kernels, but you should be able to get direct rendering( HW OpenGL ) working on your Radeon 9200 under the latest DebianPPC.