Yup, it's easy to swap out the drive on a Molar - it's just a
standard IDE drive, and the whole guts of the computer slide out the
back on a tray. A separate ATA card wouldn't be strictly necessary,
but maybe you'd get better performance, I dunno.
I notice you're in the Niagara region, so I feel like I should jump
in and offer to sell you my molar, since I'm in St. Catharines and
you're in the market for one. I'm the original owner and it's been a
solid performer for me, though I recently upgraded to a G4 to do some
video encoding.
Here are the specs:
G3 - 266MHz (Rev. B)
640 Mb Ram (It takes PC100 ram, and all three slots are used - 256 +
256 + 128)
27 Gb Hard Drive
DVD Rom drive
Original extended keyboard and a 5-button optical scroll mouse
VRam upgraded to 6Mb
It's got a USB 1.1 PCI card in it. It's also got the AV personality
card with the RCA and S-Video jacks, although this card only works
under OS 9. The floppy drive and front volume button also only work
under OS 9 on these machines. The official last supported OS is
Jaguar, but I was happily running Tiger on it using XPostfacto. I
can also drop in a 12X sony CD burner if you'd prefer, or the
original CD Rom drive.
Asking Price: $125
Please email me off list if you're interested - it's time for me to
let this machine go, and free up some much needed space in my apartment.
AD
On 6-Oct-05, at 10:35 PM, Tom W. wrote:
I am considering getting a molar. Does it have a normal CDrom like the
beige g3 that could be swapped out for DVD burner running from an ATA
-66 card?
Thanks
Tom
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