I'm considering a NewerTech PDS G3 board for a P6116 here in the office. It currently runs OS 9.1 with 72 MB RAM (physical) and RamDoubler to 144 MB.
Right now it kind of plods along. Will the G3 work/be compatible with OS 9.1? Do you agree that adding additional RAM (I'm considering 2 72 MB SIMMs) would help with the speed, too?
Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
TIA,
Doug
I have 2 128 sticks of ram and a G3 Newer Tech G3 card. with the cross over to add a monitor. It runs fine.Ram made a real difference, however in start up it checks those 2 128k sticks so that slows things a bit, after that pretty zippy
I stayed at 8.6 I have other computers for 9 and 10. But that old pizza box just keeps humming along. I do e-mail, faxes in and out, letters, some scanning. Burn CDs. I think I can instant message on it if I want. Really a sweet player for something almost 10 years old. I have replaced 2 pram batteries and upgraded the original hard drive.. I was thinking of system 9 but do not see what I would be really missing. Thing runs almost 24/7
Can't see throwing these away when kids can not afford them and for very cheap they have a mac that does what most people do with a computer. E-mail, letters, the net and school work.
Geoff
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