7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
12:52 a.m.
On Sat, January 6, 2007 21:21, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yup--and the little tag on the back mentions the Zip drive, now that
I have my near-see glasses on. This one also has 1MB cache and some
sort of AV card in it.
The Zip was standard on most models aside from the 233, IIRC. Nice machine
for Mac-based noodlings though others have already mentioned the lack of a
modern web browser - iCab is the closest these days but it costs. Netscape
is still a goer as is IE 5 for Mac.
That machine will run early versions of OSX if you can find them, though
I've no idea how fast it'll be; 10.4 struggles sometimes on my 733mhz G4
with a gig of RAM.
I understand that low-profile 256MB SIMMs can be
installed, but that
they need to be a special type, not the usual PC133 type. Is this
true--and any guidelines to make sure that I'm picking up the right
flavor?
I've got mixtures running in my older Macs, both PC133 and PC100. Even
stuff from an old Dell server will run in a beige G3. Right now I've got a
beige 266 that's happily running half a gig of standard PC133. There
*were* restrictions on DIMM height but so far I haven't found a stick that
doesn't work.
Daisy that I obtained, around 1988. It's only
lately that I've begun
using LCD monitors. I was concerned that there might be something
REALLY funny about Mac video.
I get by with a ukp10 video converter when I don't have a handy Mac
monitor kicking around; it needs to be told the res and frequency via the
gift of DIP switches but it works. Failing that get an ATI PCI card and
use that instead, I think any RAGE series one will do.
Happy Mac-ing :)
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?