Speaking of the surplus sale... What do they do with the stuff they don't sell?
I heard that they take it to DI... is that's true, then maybe I want to camp out at DI for the next few days... lol -Rich On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:38:37 -0600, Scott K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Noll wrote: > > > I'm actually running Panther (10.3.5) on a Power Macintosh G3 (Blue > > and White) and it works great! 300 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 4MB ATI > > graphics card. When I first installed Panther, the display was only > > grey and white. Later, Apple released a fix that applied specifically > > to my model to fix the problem. I'm assuming they therefore support > > installing OS X on a G3 machine. Anyway, It's obviously not terribly > > fast, but its really not that slow either. Works great for me. > > > > What do you mean "safely"? > > > > > We had real issues installing Panther on Lombard model powerbook G3's > (without firwire but with USB). Yes it ran fine for a little bit, but > then they would kernel panic over low power and other issues right on > boot. The grey and white bug is another concern as well as some other > proprietary Hard drive interfaces and the like. When you go to a surplus > sale, you don't really have the time to look up the quirks of a > particular model and find out how well it will run OSX, especially the > beige g3's which are cheaper. So safety here would be a question about > good investment and acceptable performance from 5+ year old hardware. > > Scott K > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
