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Haha, that's an amazing way to get it going. If you're good with woodworking, you could build a temporary case for it, I did the same thing with an old P4 PC.

That's a pretty awesome add-on, would be interesting to see it hooked up to huge screen, but probably not practical.

Well, thanks to me not needing to use the floppy drive in the 8500, I now have 3 hard drives inside of it. Wow was that a pain to achieve though, those Quadra 800 style cases are severely cramped.

I actually got BeOS R4.5 running on it about 2 nights ago. The problem was that the 8500 couldn't boot from the CD-RW drive that came with it. I swapped it with my trusty AppleCD 600i and it loaded up first try. It sees the Processor as a PPC 750 @ 300Mhz. It's interesting to see BeOS...

I found a link to a download for it here.

Finally, I had a break through. I got BeOS R4.5 PPC to install on the 8500, it turned out that the CD-RW drive that came with it, wasn't bootable. So I swapped it with my trusty AppleCD 600i (4x) and it loaded right up. It feels really fast and responsive so far, but I haven't really tested...

I've got a Sonnet G3 card in my 7100, and it works really well, I've yet to try it in my 6100, but I bet it will make that machine feel brand new.

I just got a Power Macintosh 8500 and was wondering, does anybody else have one, and what do you do with it? Also, what are the specs on your 8500. I'm using mine for browsing the web with classilla, doing various OS tests, and playing some classic games on it (since it has a better graphics...

Nice find, though it looks like it's lived a rough life. I just got a 7100/66 a few days ago, there pretty nice machines, and mine had a pretty good surprise in it, a Sonnet Crescendo G3 Card @ 250Mhz with video card adapter attached to the HPV card.

I was using a utility called "Sonnet PCI X Installer 1.2.6", it kinda works like XPostFacto, and was on the hard drive. I have archived the software so I don't lose it, as it seems it wasn't actually included with the Crescendo card. I am going to back up anything on the hard drives worth...

Well, I'm officially running OS X 10.2.8 on the 8500, and it runs just as fast as it did on my B&W G3. As for the 7100, I upgraded the RAM to 136MB (4 32MB SIMMs). Won't be able to get online with it though, as it has that terrible AAUI port on the back, otherwise, I would throw Classilla...

I'm not sure if BeOS is going to work, each time it crashes when I click on the BeOS launcher it just locks up the machine with a black screen, and it won't boot from the cd at all. When I tried to turn the machine off with the G3 card out(since I know that BeOS doesn't work with G3 or G4 CPUS)...

Here are the pictures: First the 7100/66: And here's the 8500/180: I'm actually going to try a dual boot between Mac OS 9, and BeOS R5 with the 8500.

Unfortunately, no S-Video, so it's just the video card, but it has no RAM (or VRAM) in any of the SIMM banks, so I'm not sure if it's for RAM extension or for VRAM.\ Otherwise, both have office 2001 and photoshop 4 on them. Though, I'm wondering if the 8500 would run OS X (either 10.1 or 10.2)...

Ok so I just got 2 Power Macs for $50 The first one is a Power Macintosh 7100/66, Here are the specs: 109MB RAM 4GB SCSI HDD Standard CD-ROM 66Mhz PowerPC 601 Sonnet Crescendo G3 @ 250Mhz, with some kind of video card attached via ribbon cable to the upgrade card(Let me know what it is, if...

I bought mine for $2 dollars from a yard sale back in 2002. It had a dead 80MB Quantum ProDrive LPS inside, I wound up putting an 80MB Connor Drive in it, but that just recently started having issues, so I might have to find a new drive soon (which might prove challenging, as they are quite...

Nice score, hopefully my next conquest will be an iMac of some kind. Makes me wish I hadn't moved from Oregon, as there is a lot of older macs around the west coast(at least that's what it seems like to me lol).

Might want to try the official Retr0bright Wiki Here, as it has very informative instructions, and really explains the science on how it actually works.

That's a great find, and to have the G3 upgrade card in there is just awesome.

The caps were made in china, they're made by Samxon.