I sold him the g3. its a g3, 333mhz model with 320 megs of ram.
included was a "Supported" usb card, a firewire card and an extra nic
in the pci sloots.
the motherboard also has I think an exerternal scsi, to geoport
serial ports, a adb port and a dvd rom. he bought it for fifty five
dollars.
On Jul 2, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Access Curmudgeon wrote:
I am not sure if this was added or not it just has one.
how do I find out what model of beige I have?
System Profiler? Is whoever sold this to you totally unavailable?
also, out of curiousity, what happened when your friend
plug the monitor in to the joy stick port?
Lots of smoke and stink. The cable from the port to the motherboard
melted, thin little wires in that couldn't handle the power the
monitor pumping out. Somewhat surprisingly, no permanent damage.
there are 2 ports on this machine one that looks like a printer port
That is almost certainly be SCSI.
and a smaller one
There should be three or four small round ones, kind of like PS/2 but
the pin outs are different. One or two with four pins is ADB, Apple
Desktop Bus. Two with eight pins is serial which Macs also used for
networking.
those are the only 2 ports on the back besides the
usual sound usb firewire etc etc.
Firewire was not standard on this vintage Macs either! According to
that page I sent, there would be also be RJ45 Ether net and a weird
port called AAUI which used a dongle to adapt to token ring or other
network jack.
