All righty then! I made the leap and got a Revision 1 B&W for a nice price (I thought) of $80, about $20 shipping, should get it this week!
VERY nice price, Deb; big part of why B&W's are the "sweet spot" for budget-constrained Low End Macophiles. You're gonna love how well it runs X. How soon is the new addition to the family due to arrive?
Anyway it's a pretty basic setup (got it from the LEM swap list!! YAY!):
G3/300 B&W System 9.2 Memory 128MB 24X CD 2-Firewire ports 2-USB ports 1-ADB port Ethernet 6 Gig Hard Drive
I just got (yesterday) a similarly configged Rev 1 for my own main Mac, to replace Old Blue who I recently placed in a "mixed marriage" home (His iBook, Her PeeCee). I helped Vince switch about a year ago, and together we're trying to lure Elaine back from the Dark Side....my sig line is based in something more than just tongue-in-cheek humor, y'know.
So I can use [from my MiniTower] the upgrade card (I know, Gene, but I"m gonna give it a try!)
Hey, a G4/800 is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, even at 66 MHz bus speed. Do yourself a favor, though - find a replacement that fully utilizes the B&W's 100 MHz bus ASAP. I have a PowerLogix G3/800 if you wanna talk swap (settled on giving Blue Gene Too the PowerLogix G4/600). Contact me off-list if you're interested.
I've *really* felt your pain for the past couple weeks, trying to get Panther running on my All-In-One while shopping for my next B&W. That definitely did NOT work out as I'd hoped - wound up using my G3'ed Power Computing PowerCenter MT as my main Mac. Luckily, I was able to overclock an IBM (Copper) 300/512K ZIF (a Swaplist special, natch) to 450 MHz - just fast enough for tolerable Panther performance. Boy howdy, the sacrifices I make for the sake of Mac Evangelism!
Also have a SIIG SCSI card apparently it's a scsi-2, I used to use it for an external CDRW on my peecee. There is mac software (Not OSX tho) for a newer scsi card they have. I downloaded it "just in case."
Good luck with that card. Maybe you'll be able to be able to use a SCSI drive for backups and such. And it'd sure come in handy if you have any other SCSI peripherals you'd like to keep using.
What I'm gonna do tho is install OSX right away, as I had so much trouble doing that on the MT. And HEY no 8 GB limit, right?
Any other advice? I'm soooo excited!!
Data-wise, put anything and everything you'd like to keep handy on a OS 9-bootable hard drive *NOW* - before you do anything with the B&W.
Pax, -- Gene, a.k.a. G-Man Friends don't let friends do Windows
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