I give up what is a smurph?

2010-10-23 Thread smac0031
I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.
You should realize you're talking to Poppa Smurph here.

Just Curious

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Re: I give up what is a smurph?

2010-10-23 Thread Chance Reecher

Smurf is the nickname for the BlueWhite tower PowerMac G3s.

Chance

On 10/23/10 12:41 PM, smac0031 wrote:

I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.
You should realize you're talking to Poppa Smurph here.

Just Curious



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Re: I give up what is a smurph?

2010-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly


On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:41 PM, smac0031 wrote:


I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.
You should realize you're talking to Poppa Smurph here.

Just Curious



Try looking through Mactracker:
http://www.mactracker.ca/

Its free.

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Re: I give up what is a smurph?

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Haas


On Oct 23, 2010, at 9:41 AM, smac0031 wrote:


I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.


Smurfs, NOT smurphs, the cartoon character, are blue and white.

Smurfs, the G3 PowerMac, are also blue and white.

For quite a while Smurfs were among the most affordable PowerMacs.  
These can be upgraded to G4, using a hacked MacOS ROM procedure.


Alas, even Gigabit Ethernets are now exceptionally cheap, and there  
is probably no reason to go with the 10/100 Blue  White G3 or the  
10/100 slate G4s as the 10/100/1000 slate G4s and the 10/100/1000  
silver G4s are now quite affordable.


One negative is all of those mentioned have a very poor-performing  
USB system, and installing a 2.0/1.1 USB PCI card can be very useful.





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Re: I give up what is a smurph?

2010-10-23 Thread Powermac
BW G3's are also the last of the ADB equipped macs, so if you have a
bunch of adb stuff you still want to use (drawing tablets etc) then a
BW G3 is nice to have around.



On Oct 23, 1:49 pm, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
 On Oct 23, 2010, at 9:41 AM, smac0031 wrote:

  I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.

 Smurfs, NOT smurphs, the cartoon character, are blue and white.

 Smurfs, the G3 PowerMac, are also blue and white.

 For quite a while Smurfs were among the most affordable PowerMacs.  
 These can be upgraded to G4, using a hacked MacOS ROM procedure.

 Alas, even Gigabit Ethernets are now exceptionally cheap, and there  
 is probably no reason to go with the 10/100 Blue  White G3 or the  
 10/100 slate G4s as the 10/100/1000 slate G4s and the 10/100/1000  
 silver G4s are now quite affordable.

 One negative is all of those mentioned have a very poor-performing  
 USB system, and installing a 2.0/1.1 USB PCI card can be very useful.

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