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[pyat]

On the 25th anniversary of Macintosh, I found a PowerMac G3 All-in-One on the curb. It's in the trunk of my car even now. Is it worth keeping? All the cables, etc., were included with it...

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[pvenables.livejournal.com]

Does it work?

From what I've heard, you CAN get OSX to run on a G3 so if it works at all, it may be worth resuscitating.

[redregon.livejournal.com]

well, if it does, it could be a good computer for general surfing and the like... maybe a computer for the girls?

if it doesn't work, well, you could always call apple support, see what options there are... (though, if you fear the rep is being lazy, ask to be forwarded to a product specialist.. you are allowed to and afaik, they have to honour that request.)

[relee.livejournal.com]

You had better open it and look inside the case in case it's a trap.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Cool beans! Definitely worth bringing up, or at least trying. You may want to furkle around with XPostFacto, to get a reasonably recent version of OS X in place - I had Tiger (10.4) on a PBG3/266, which worked quite nicely. Leopard isn't an option for it, as that requires a G4, but Tiger's pretty well supported by current applications.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

So? Does it work???

::B::

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

If it works, toss Yellow Dog Linux on it and... I dunno, you can use it as a router, low budget web server, there's so many possibilities. The first enterprise web systems I developed were hosted on Mac G3s under Mac OS 7.x or something. The experience pretty horrible, but that was due to OS and database backend choices rather than hardware. In absolute sense, they were pretty capable systems. By current standards, well, we're spoiled nowadays aren't we. Not sure about the All in one models though.