Hi All, I picked up a G3 Powerbook at my local computer recycler for 10 bucks last sping and I have some questions about whether my plans for it are reasonable. It boots to the blinking question mark just fine and the screen looks great but it came with no HD (or HD mounting hardware it appears) and no AC adapter. I tested it at the store with an adapter they drug out of their repair shop's equipment set. The PB has at least 64mb of ram, a dvd drive module, but no dvd mpeg decoder card.
My Plan - strictly in pencil at this point!: Use it for Word Processing with my cross 9/osx version of Appleworks. Play Time Wasting OS9 games like Solitaire, Cribbage, and the like which I have floating around. Use it as a REALLY BIG LCD Picture Frame and mobile photo viewer. Potentially watch my avi/divx files or even get the mpeg card to watch 'real' dvd's. Methods: Get a knock off ac adapter off eBay. Use a spare 2.5gig ibm microdrive from my digital photography to either mount inside or boot off a cf to pc card adapter in one of the external slots. Use the software I have floating around to use the machine. Any or All input/questions/commentary would be welcome, folks. Richard in Michigan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
