Phil's iBook 700MHz Adventures

[Phipli]

I don't own any intel Mac laptops sorry . But I picked up a cheap "sold as seen" iBook G3 700MHz 12" on eBay.

This thread will capture my experiences getting it running and installing unsupported Systems.

It hasn't been all plain sailing. I'll fill in the details, but let's just say this is the third time I've had this famously tricky machine apart :

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[Phipli]

So the Machine arrived. Overall condition is good, but worryingly, I think it is someone's parts donor. The keyboard is was heavily worn, more so than the screen is faded or the case worn.

The fan is noisy. For now, given it rarely spins, I'll just put up with it. The Optical (it has a DVD read / CD writer (was that a combo drive? I forget)) drive eject is tired, but it seems to read well. It is a tray drive on these.

RAM was 128MB, and the hard disk was "dead", but turned out to have been removed.

I plugged in a USB pendrive I'd been messing with and discovered it was actually bootable, so messed booting it in 9.2.2 and Mac OS 7.6.1 from CD and USB.

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