All this talk of beige G3's made me remember to post this: I have a beige Desktop G3 266MHz. It is running MacOS X 10.2.8 (recently upgraded to OS X due to kind donation of the install disks from a friend.) It runs OS X fairly well (it has two 64MB DIMMS and a 256MB one, which unfortunately it only cares to see 128MB of, giving 256MB overall.) The OS is installed on a secondary drive (I removed the internal CD ROM and have two internal IDE drives now, and an external SCSI CD Burner.) One drive (10GB) has the original 8.6 on it, the other (8.4GB) has two partitions (one circa 6GB and one 2GB one) and OS X is on the larger of those. I think the OS X drive is the primary master on the first IDE stream. Classic is not installed, by the way.
Basically, OS X runs just fine 99% of the time, but a few times I've been running updates through the Software Update panel, or installing packages via the Installer and the machine has frozen. It happens two fold. First the mouse frezed, but the OS is still running. Secondly the monitor goes into powersaving mode. The OS still seems to be running, but there is no way seemingly to revive it. Any ideas? Could it be to do with the SCSI CD burner? I did notice that copying the files from the CD I was installing from to the 2GB partition seemed to cure the problem. Secongly, while I remember, does OS X support serial conection of a Apple LaserWriter Select 360? I can share it from a PC via SAMBA, but it would be nicer to have it connected directly. Print Center is so different from Choser, I was lost. Sorry if that is a little technical to begin with - I'm originally a PC guy, and found Macs later in life. Don't hold it against me though, I now have 4 Macs vs 2 PC's (and one of those PC's is a laptop.) M -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
