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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
 Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 13:41:40
Well, Classic Mack is gonna be coming home! (The name comes from the movie Entrapment, Sean Connery played in it)I got it on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2753243157 It's just the logic board, stick in a power supply, RAM and a drive and I am set to go. Not bad eh? Just need to find some IDE drives and a power supply. |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 15:17:49
Cool!  For the PSU, you can use an iMac PSU if you want, but an even better option would be to use an ATX power supply. Either way, have fun!"**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 Edited by - maclover5 on 17 Sep 2003 15:51:29 |
The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 15:48:02
Hmm. It seems that the word **** is being censored out of this forum.The Lightning Stalker Performa 631CD, 7.5.5
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 15:53:11
It always has been. Anyone remember the old days when ~Coxy set up the word censor to censor out Microsoft?  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
Warrior maclover5
68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 19:18:50
lol, I have an iMac 233, iThink mine's a Rev. A... I love the thing to death, right now Grandpa has a chance to love it to death as well Official 68k videographer
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 21:04:51
I have been reading up the various hacks people have done, from rack mounting, custom cases etc.I am going to use a standard ATX Power supply, I just need to find a dead iMac PSU and retrieve the plastic connector since it's a custom job. I can then splice wires. I'm not going to go fancy or gung ho over this, but get something reasonable setup. I think I will let my 8600 run Mac OS X 1.1 Server to do my web stuff, and then my iMac can do all my recent stuff. Btw, can an iMac of this calibre do DVD? I used to own one of these, and I know it sucked at doing Divx but I wonder if DVD will work if I have a DVD drive hooked up. Any ideas? I will go shopping for a case soon, I was actually going to see maybe if one of those Shuttle cases would fit for the iMac LG Board. Or see what else I can get my hands on. I know a place where I can get iMac parts like PSU connectors etc. Which reminds me, Oh no. I lost it. I hate when that happens.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 21:31:26
I'm not sure if a mac of that calibur could do DVD, first you'd need a DVD drive, and then you'd either need to decode it, I'm not sure if the 266MHz G3 is fast enough for that...Official 68k videographer
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2003 : 22:11:26
I reckon that if you installed a Sonnet HARMONi, which will give you a 500 Mhz G3 and a FW port, as well as a FireWire or IDE DVD drive, you may have a chance, because of the faster G3.Btw, you know that that logic board doesn't have a CPU, right? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
Warrior maclover5
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2003 : 01:58:52
Yep. I know. 86 bucks (which is what the total came to) is a lot cheaper than buying it elsewhere etc etc etc. Like for a used iMac they want around 500 Canadian sometimes as much as 800 (they would be DV's at that price range) And I really don't need all the crap they will pack with them like fancy keyboards, mice etc.I can locate G3 CPU's on the cheap and RAM is cheap these days so I'm only looking at like another 100 or 150 dollars and I have an almost fully loaded G3 system because IDE drives and CD's, I can get them next to nothing as well. :) Depending on how much this one guy charges, I might have him convert my iMac into a rackmount. http://imac.pointinspace.com/ he did an awesome project to make iMac Rack Mounts and I think that would serve me well. Now, on towards my hunt for a Apple CPU. :)
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Clinton
Full Member
USA
700 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2003 : 12:15:01
since the iMac G3 early revisions are bastardized laptops in a candy box, you'll have a job finding the processor for it. not to discourage you, but it aint your everyday ZIF chip...CCC Commander
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Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2003 : 21:25:46
MacResQ has 3 in stock as well as a local company I haven't checked with.
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Gothikon
Full Member
Australia
537 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2003 : 15:22:44
quote:
since the iMac G3 early revisions are bastardized laptops in a candy box, you'll have a job finding the processor for it. not to discourage you, but it aint your everyday ZIF chip...
These things may not use regular G3 ZIFs but the chips are still fairly common. Also as it is a hacked up laptop you should hack on a floppy drive and ADB(or is it serial?) port on this, of course if you are running OS X there wouldn't be much point but they are both easy hacks and kinda cool. The chips are also easy to overclock you should get about 33MHz extra out of anything but the sub 300 chips often do 300 which is a nice boost. I've been thinking about doing an iMac hack for a while but I still have to finish my Quadra 605 hack.... --------
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2003 : 20:00:24
while overclocking sounds good, I'm not sure if it's the solution for me if you're good at soldering tBoJ, you might like it Official 68k videographer
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