Then today I meet up with a friend to go see underworld. We go to see the first showing. We get there and a person walks out and says the manager is late today so they can’t unlock the ticket machine. So they give us a free movie pass and free popcorn.

Our local apple retailer is right across from the theater and I start to stop by but I decide not too. About half way home I decide to go back. I get there and ask if they have any used G3s and he says that he just sold the last one to the couple walking out the door. Then he jokingly says I got a B&W G3 that don’t work. I asked what is wrong and he said it was either the CPU or the logic board he did not remember which. I told him that I had a 300 zif I could bring up to test with and if it worked I would buy it. He said that he was pretty sure it was the logic board. Thinking how much I hate the case to my P4 I ask how much he wants for the case. He said 40 for just the case. I asked if he wanted me come back later and he said that he could part it while I waited. He left the board it in as he did not want it. He then said he had a matching 17" studio display that works for about 2 hours makes a loud pop and then shuts off and that he was going to throw it away and that I could have it if I wanted.

I get home and before I gut the G3 I decide to test it. So I cut the -5v wire on a spare ATX PS and plug it and my 300 zif in. Turn it on and it makes the bad memory sound. I drop in a old dimm and my ATI video card and it make the bong sound and gives the ? mark as I have no drives in it. The only IDE cd rom I have does not look to be bootable I'll have to get another drive. So Monday I going to get a cd drive and copy of OS X 10.2 so it looks like I will be able to get a G3 in my budget of 200.

All in all I say things came out pretty well.

--Edit I dont have much use for the monitor so if anyone in the DFW area wants it you're welcome to it.

--Eric
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I Took the Road Less Traveled, and Now Where the Heck Am I?

WHOAGLAYVEN!!!!

Have fun with the B/W, Mine has a Yikes! G4 mobo, but it's still really cool to have, and they run OSX (panther even) pretty well.

"One slip and down the hole we fall"

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Other than slight sleep deprivation the last few months have been kind of like that

Are you going to try that CD burner in your mac?

How did you get it going so fast anyway? either way, have lots of funs

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Or just 6

Though continueing on my thread of good luck. When I upgraded my Athlon to a P4 I gave the old motherboard and cpu to a friend of my boss. Well his company just upgrade the ram in a whole bunch of systems and he got to keep the old ram. So he is going to give 4 128MB dimms.

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