Thanks for all the advice. Oops,A little late reading whole brittle plastic warning. nothing important is missing, but there are little chips of plastic everywhere now. The plastic does not age well. The hard drive had failed, i replaced it. Im going to find a newer ide cd drive and try swapping the old one out, i suspect it is not reading my cd's. I tried pressing the C key at power on, no luck. The drive spins up and there is a little activity at first but it does not appear to even be trying to read the cd. The floppy drive is all gummed up, but that may be something i can clean out and repair.
Plan is to get mac os 8 or 9 installed. I already have an ibook g4 running 10.4, i do not have much interest in osx. the 68k and ppc machines are what i grew up with, thats my focus. I have a pile of mac se's, hopefully if i can get the g3 running it will make getting media made for the se's easier. --Devin On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> I went through a number of "this totally works on a beige G3" MacOS 8.x and >> 9.x ISOs before finding one that would boot my beige G3 desktop. I think it >> ended up being MacOS 9.2.1. > > There is a "boot-any" CD from the last eMac that can boot OS 9 that will boot > any OS 9.2.2-compatible Mac, of which the beige G3 should qualify. The > part# is 691-4323-A. > > 9.2.2 has some slight performance improvements on native G3 and New World > systems, but for my other beige Macs I prefer 9.1. > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ > -- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com > -- I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. -- Joe Walsh > -------------------
