On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, aussieshepsrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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