I know when we bought the beige G3 300 for #1 son to do digital
video, the digitizer card was $1000 and then there was an extra SCSI
card and big drive, etc. We bought it set up from B&H, because that
way it WORKED out of the box. I think it was close to $5000 for the
whole order.
A year later the G4 came with all the DV stuff out of the box for
$2500 or so. BY then the EIDE drives were bumped up to 66 from 33,
so the SCSI was not necessary, just an extra drive.
When I worked for the Univ, in 97 or 98, the part I was working for
wanted to do digital video, and I said "buy a mac from B&H" but of
course they wouldn't, because it had to be a Winders machine. So we
spec'd a Winders machine from B&H, and sent it off to
"Purchasing" A couple of weeks later we got several boxes from a
now-defunct big box store. The "purchasing" brainchildren found they
could save $20 by ordering all the pieces, rather than the WORKING
computer from B&H! And of course they didn't inform anyone of their
decision. So we dutifully put the pieces together, and nothing
worked. after hours (days, weeks) on the phone to the various mfgrs
and the big box store, they finally sent out a "tech" to show all us
idiots how to set it up. Well, after 2 or 3 days, they could not
make it work either. I think they ended up eating it. I just stayed
away when I saw all the boxes arrive. I did not want to get sucked
into that mess. A month or two later, there was finally a working
computer, and i think after they sent back all the pieces, they
ordered the WORKING box from B&H.
At 11:33 PM 2/5/2009, you wrote:
First, you must run the extension in OS 9 to get firewire or USB
anyway, check that it's installed and running. No native firewire or
USB in 9.
Second, Beige G3s are REALLY cranky. I have a Firewire and USB 1.0
card somewhere that was installed in mine when I got it, I'll try to
dig them up and see what they are. A combo card is nicer, but you
should have plenty of slots on a Beige.
I have a USB 2.0 card in the B&W, I'll dig into it and check tomorrow
(too late tonight).
I also have several other USB 2.0 cards floating about that were
supposed to work but didn't.
Call the manufacturer, too (or at least look on their web site) --
you may need to configure the card or something.
Peter
On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
So I paid extra for the Sonnet Tango 2.0 (FWUSB2A) Firewire/USB
board for my Mac, because that particular board is supposed to
work as-is, without extra drivers, on any Mac and/or OS of my
vintage. Specifically listed on the sales literature is my
exact computer (Beige G3 desktop), and my exact OS (10.2.8).
Newer and older machines and OS's are listed. No special requirements
are noted for my machine or OS.
Naturally, it doesn't work. It crashes on boot, after it loads the
AppleFWOHCI.kext module. Thinking that I might have had leftover
cruft from my previous USB card debacle, I reinstalled 10.2.8 from
scratch (as an archive and reinstall), no difference. I booted from
an OS9 CD and disabled this kernel extension, and now it can come up.
Without any signs of life on the USB ports, of course.
So, no new digicam activity to report here.
-- Jim
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