Happy Tenth to the B/W G3!

[porter]

A problem are the rev-1 boards (a buggy Harddisk controller) and thefacts that the machine accepts only single sided RAM sticks and can't boot

from Firewire,USB or ordinary DVD drives.

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger.

I added an ACARD controller so I now have a 250Gb drive.

 

[iamdigitalman]

I just retired my B&W G3 450mhz (overclocked 400mhz) in leau of an eMac, but I have been thinking of putting it back into active use as a server. It runs great still, and should serve up a backup of my files perfectly for a long long time.

All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.2 or Mac OS X Server 10.4.

 

[paws]

I'm hoping to get one for the office - it all just comes together in the B&W: near give-away prices, low power consumption for teh quiet, ADB keyboard and optionally a serial port, runs OS9, Tiger and Linux... scrumptious!

 

[Christopher]

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?

 

[paws]

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?

Don't know the Gigabit. But at least on the Sawtooth there's a fan you can disconnect with no trouble unless you add more HDs or fill every PCI slot. That makes it very quiet.

Since the later G3s suck less juice than the G4s (even clock-for-clock, as I understand), there's not going to be a lot of heat with just one modern HD and a graphics card...

 

[porter]

All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.2 or Mac OS X Server 10.4.

Why? The normal OS can act as a server.

 

[iamdigitalman]

The normal OS takes more space, and I want it to be as small as possible. Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work.

 

[porter]

Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work.

Really? I regularly use SSH to talk to my Tiger box.

TCP/IP is TCP/IP, the box doesn't give a damn if it's local, remote, NAT'd or anything else.

 

[istar1018]

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger.

Yep. Me too. I've even used a DVD-R drive on my Rev. 1. No problems.

 

[~Coxy]

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

 

[stevebez]

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

1.2 is way more robust than most people think, and there is almost no bloat! If you can live without aqua and a modern browser it is quite nice.

 

[z180]

In OS X DP3 it was still possible to delete the Aqua theme file, the OS changed to Platinum if you did it.

 

[Alien]

I have two in active use, one as my main server, the other as backup and test server.

Both run 10.4.9 Tiger Server on 1.1 GHz PPC750GX CPU's, 1 GB RAM and 4-port SATA cards. Next upgrade will be dual-port gigabit Ethernet cards.

Sweet machines, for sure.

.tsooJ

 

[MultiFinder]

"wow, this is the future of the Mac"

And the Pro still has the same basic case design, wow.

If you mean that it's an upright tower with computer parts inside and a power button on the front, then yes

 

[Pee_Pee_computer]

I have just landed one with hard drive controller issues, downgraded and the b/w is back to normal! Lovely how the legacy keyboard gets used plus a working narrow scsi in 10.4.11! and free!

'is Lovely how some things stare planned obscelescence in the face s/a this and other old era mac units. She's a beaut and will boot so she deserves this root.

Ubuntu Server discussion someplace anyone?

 

[Miel]

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?

Don't know the Gigabit. But at least on the Sawtooth there's a fan you can disconnect with no trouble unless you add more HDs or fill every PCI slot. That makes it very quiet.

Since the later G3s suck less juice than the G4s (even clock-for-clock, as I understand), there's not going to be a lot of heat with just one modern HD and a graphics card...

Yes, much cooler and quieter.

The fans needed to cool a G4 tend to be very loud. The processor gets extremely hot. Ever listened to an eMac? My word, they must have borrowed that fan from a Hoover or something.