[SIZE=10pt]This past Friday as I was getting ready to leave work I ran into one of the building maintenance guys while waiting to get on the elevator. He asked if I was the guy that had three monitors on my desk and when I confirmed that I was he mentioned he was cleaning out stuff left over by a tenant on a lower floor who had vacated a few weeks earlier. He'd run into some old machines and I could have them if I was interested, since it would save him/his guys the hassle of carting them all down to the dumpster. Once I got down there I found a bunch of Dell P4s (nothing special) and a lone C2D machine. I figured "oh well" and was about to leave when he said he found an old Apple tower and an Apple Sonnet desktop he had put aside figuring I might want them. I thought the tower was probably a G4 of some sort, given the age of the other machines but I didn't quite make the connection of what an "Apple Sonnet desktop" was. The tower turned out to be a 6500/250 tower and the "Apple Sonnet" turned out to be a Beige G3 with a "Powered by Sonnet" sticker on it. Of course, I was only too happy to pick up both machines and after helping him load the Dells onto a cart to be disposed of I was happily on my way.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Fired up the Beige G3 and found it has an Encore G4 running at 733MHz, plus a built in Zip drive, a Rage 128/16MB video card, a USB/Firewire combo card, and an upgraded (80GB) hard drive. I figured this was going to be the highlight of the two machine haul, but boy was I wrong. Starting up the 6500/250 I saw the “Crescendo G3” banner pop up beneath the 9.1 loading screen. At this point I was thinking “Surely you can’t be serious” but once it finished booting I discovered I had a 500MHz G3 upgrade! Quite a conquest for the low price of helping to load some derelict P4s onto a cart![/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]TL;DR – Managed to score an upgraded Beige G3 with a G4 and some very useful PCI cards as well as an upgraded 6500 with a Sonnet L2/G3-500.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Fired up the Beige G3 and found it has an Encore G4 running at 733MHz, plus a built in Zip drive, a Rage 128/16MB video card, a USB/Firewire combo card, and an upgraded (80GB) hard drive. I figured this was going to be the highlight of the two machine haul, but boy was I wrong. Starting up the 6500/250 I saw the “Crescendo G3” banner pop up beneath the 9.1 loading screen. At this point I was thinking “Surely you can’t be serious” but once it finished booting I discovered I had a 500MHz G3 upgrade! Quite a conquest for the low price of helping to load some derelict P4s onto a cart![/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]TL;DR – Managed to score an upgraded Beige G3 with a G4 and some very useful PCI cards as well as an upgraded 6500 with a Sonnet L2/G3-500.[/SIZE]
