Would anyone like a free PowerPC Macintosh? An
acquaintance of mine
has one he wants to get rid of. It's a PowerMac 7200/90. Spec unknown,
I'm afraid, but it'll be running MacOS 8 or 9 or so. I believe these
machines can be coaxed into running OS X up to 10.4 with XPostFacto,
although you'll need to stick to at most 10.1 or 10.2 unless you put a
G3 upgrade in it. Either way it will need more RAM and hard disk space
to run OS X.
This is slight OT but the G3 upgrades for the 7200 are not compatible
with OS X. There is no processor slot in those models, so the G3 upgrade
goes in a PCI slot and requires an Extension that OS X does not replicate
or recognize.
However, it will happily run OS 9.1, and probably 9.2.x with a bit of
skulduggery.
The 73/75/7600 have a real processor slot and with a G3 or G4 can run OS X.
However, anything beyond 10.3.9 is probably pushing it, even with a fast
PCI graphics card.
Okay, OT off *hides*
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