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It can depend on configuration (and a bit of bidding luck with eBay). Stock G3s are indeed close to $0. One with upgrades, even just extra RAM, could easily go higher though. Same with the early G4s. Their low point seems to be about $30 right now for stock setups of the early models but some...

I've found several that adapt 2.5" IDE to 3.5" SCSI (normal 50-pin connector, not the Powerbook's 40-pin), which are somewhat confusingly listed as just 2.5" adapters. I've found none that do 2.5" IDE to 2.5" SCSI though. They exist of course, but the only known source is the larger 2.5" SCSI...

G3s and the low-end PCI PowerMacs are all reaching the free/almost free range now. Higher end PCI Macs and their clones (mostly the Tsunami-based ones) have never hit the $0 mark in general. There's always been some demand for them.

I think we're at the start of the collector's phase, when the value begins to rise again after hitting ~$0. Most individuals, schools and companies have finished their mass dumpings of 68k Macs. You can still get some good deals (on eBay and off) and even free 68k Macs but nothing at all like it...

Maybe see if you can get a microdrive working with the adapter if flash's write limits pose a problem. Seek times not as good as flash but performance should still be a nice improvement over the old hard drives. The Powerbook's SCSI bus is going to be the real bottleneck in either case. As for...

It should. These IDE->SCSI adapters are basically a SCSI connector and the chip or two that are missing on an IDE drive, so it functions like a real SCSI drive would.

He comes up with some of the stranger/rarer things out there. Years ago I bought a pile of VideoVision Studio cards from him. Didn't know he was still at it though. Will have to take a look.

Getting them new will be essentially impossible for anything under 36GB short of incredible luck, they just aren't made smaller any more. For smaller SCSI drives you can readily find some lightly-moderately used drives on eBay. Be sure to check out the model number(s) though. The early revisions...

Nice. Sub-1GB SCSI drives in good working condition aren't so easy to get now

I haven't used them with a Jackhammer specifically but theoretically they ought to work with any SCSI system since no drivers are needed. Any overhead is negligible, so whatever the normal performance of the drive is, is what you should get, up to the limits of the Jackhammer. It had Fast/Wide...

It was some combination hardware/software issue that caused OS X not to be capable of using both CPUs but OS 9 was ok. Potential data corruption and the general flakiness they can exhibit (they were more like a beta version than a good final product) usually make it more effort than it's worth...

I did all this in a Power Tower Pro. Both buses are clocked by one oscillator, so it was dual 66MHz PCI. If one could be kept at 33MHz the hack would be more practical since you could use all the normal cards in one of the buses. Exactly the reason I started that project. The final Tsunami...

Wow, I've been away wayyy to long. Forgive me bumping an older thread. :) That site actually belongs to me and yes, the hack is quite real and does work. The particular system mentioned is still in use right now, though with a 1GHz Sonnet G4 card instead of the G3. The practical applications...