OS 9.2 - Memory to run well?

[J English Smith]

Just bought another Lombard G3 on the 'bay and I am thinking of keeping this as a original OS machine - it has 192mb memory coming with it. Can anyone verify what a good amount of memory would be for OS 9.2.2 and "normal" open programs? The cheapest 256mb WallStreet/Lombard card I can find out there is about $20, which is almost what I paid for this beast...

 

[luddite]

192 MB should be plenty unless you're planning to do A/V or graphics.

 

[Unknown_K]

Find another 128MB SODIMM for around $5 shipped on ebay , 256MB is plenty (2x128).

 

[Strimkind]

My experience is that 128MB is fine, 192MB is better, but 512MB just screams in OS 9.2

Of course cost is always a problem with 512MB in a Lombard.

 

[J English Smith]

I'll pull the memory chips out of my other Lombard and run some tests...I love OS X, but having a truly whip-fast OS 9.2 machine would be fun. My 1400s don't have quite enough memory to run 9.x very comfortably, but I do still have some original OS programs that would be nice to use.

 

[BarnacleGrim]

My 7600 runs okay with 9.1 and 144 MB, but working with high-res scans is painful. I'm planning to upgrade in the future.

 

[J English Smith]

So far, so good. Seems to run 9.2.2 great with 256mb (I stuck in another 128 stick that I had on hand). Was pleasantly surprised to find that Airport will recognize a Lucent Silver WiFi card as an Airport card with no additional software...so getting it nettable was no big deal. I may keep this one running 9.2.2 to use Word 98 and a few other classic OS programs...it is fast and with the Platinum Sounds turned on it even sounds extra zippy.

Changing topics - the PCMCIA eject button is gone on this one - does anyone know, if I buy a replacement cage on the 'bay, can I extract the eject button and then just press it into place in the existing cage, without disassembling the whole Lombard? I'd like to do it if it's easy but if that's a full teardown I will just live with it.

And I also need to try Clasilla browser as the IE 5.1 was not working so well...

 

[luddite]

iCab is another good browser option.

 

[Scott Baret]

Classilla is the best OS 9 browser out there, you'll want to use it over iCab or IE but will need a good amount of RAM to get it going.

I have been running my OS 9 clamshell with 192MB RAM for years now and have found it to be a good amount of RAM. You can run Classilla fine with it and still have room for other programs.

Don't attempt OS 9 with less than 128MB unless you like the painfully slow virtual memory of the classic Mac OS.

 

[akator]

I also had "good" experiences with 192MB. When using Photoshop and similar memory intensive software, things worked better with 512MB or more. For years, I did a lot of professional work on a G3 with 576MB. That included Photoshop, Illustrator, and even Final Cut...