Suitability of Beige Desktop G3 for YDL

[Rob Brandt]

I must be blessed....

I checked the thrift shop on Thursday about an hour before it closed 
and the G3 still wasn't priced.  I came back Friday morning about an 
hour after they opened and it was already priced and sold.  Someone 
snaked it from me :'(  Other than a broken iMac, it was the only G3 
or better Mac I'd ever seen there.

Today I stopped in on the way back from lunch, and discovered a beige 
G3 tower sitting on the shelf for $35.  Clerk said they weren't sure 
it worked because it didn't boot up with the monitor sitting next to 
it.  Well, I had checked out that monitor a month ago (Apple 17") and 
the monitor itself didn't work.  I plugged it into another one down 
the rack and it fired right up :')

It's only a 233, with 96 MB ram, but my understanding is that the 
tower was a better unit than the desktop anyway.  Yes, you read the 
price right.  $35.  There is an uncovered slot in the back that I 
don't recognize.  It's a bit higher than the conventional sized 
slots, and isn't perfectly rectangle.  Anyone know what it is?

Rob



At 1:11 AM -0500 4/26/2002, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
>On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:35 pm, Rob Brandt wrote:
>>  Does anyone know if PowerKey pro will power-on a Mac running Linux after a
>>  power failure?
>
>you shouldnt need that, if you first set it to server mode under OS 9 (or
>whatever) and then boot up under linux, it shold be fiine - just make sure
>that you set bootx to boot to linux - also, there is a setting for that in
>linux as well.
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