Right you were Robert.
Good one Robert !
Mac 2Ci master guru Steve Strahm once explained to me the reason he
wouldn't buy used RAM is that they can incur damage that doesn't show
up for some time from even a minor discharge of static electricity
when handled.
This, of course, didn't deter him from installing 4 used 16 mB simms
when I sent him 4 sticks bought on eBay dirt cheap a few years
back... =)
When new, the 16 mB simms were $500 or so a pop, and the 030 machines
required installing 4 at a time. I bought 8 of them for my SE/30, (as
if one can actually USE 128 mB ram on applications one would run on
an SE/30 !) when they showed up on eBay dirt cheap a coupla years
back.
When I realized that the massive memory upgrade meant that startup
increased from around 25 seconds to more than a couple of minutes,
the allure of having all that ram was dimmed. (Earlier versions of
the Mac OS didn't have the option to turn off memory check on startup)
I pulled 4 out, and re-installed 4 x 4 mB alongside 4 x 16 mB simms,
which was a good enough compromise, and sent the other 4 to Steve.
In other news, one can pick up new 128 mB dimms for the PowerWave for
around $20 these days, which should be enough for the classic
environment unless Photoshop is used a lot.
Otherwise, it's probably better to skip the B&W's and go directly to
the G-4's. Early B&W's had teething problems including a crappy IDE
interface and 'leaky' firewire ports.
Recent prices for the early model G-4's (forget the initial 'Yikes'
motherboard version, it's basically a B&W on steroids), are coming in
below $200 on eBay these days, and are a good step up from the
PowerWave (main advantages are a 100 mHz system bus v the 50+ bus on
the PowerWave, and AGP graphics v PCI on the PowerWave and G3's.
The PowerWave and PowerTowerPro's can handle G4 upgrades nicely ( I
run a 375mHz G4 on a PowerTowerPro) but peripherals these days are
all UB or Firewire, and that requires investing in a PCI card as well.
Finally, if the internal CD is toast, the external CD unit can be
removed from it's caseto relace the internal unit. The advantage is
that the internal SCSI chain is faster than the external port.
Cheers...Michael
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