"New" to list here . . .
my Starmax is gathering dust, replaced by a Cube as my music server.
My neighbor across the alley needs a computer and internet to span the
"digital divide".
I'm starting to get rusty on everything pre-OSX, since I've been using a
G4 and an iBook in various incarnations of Jaguar and Panther for a good
while now.
The computer is I think originally a Starmax 180, but has a 320 G3 card
(made by that german company that got in trouble for stealing code--
forget the name). It has 160 MB of RAM, an 1/0 magic CD-ROM that seemed
like it never worked quite right in there, a 4x SCSI CD burner that also
seemed like it never worked right in there, a 100 GB 5400 RPM Maxtor
hard drive that's probably about 5x bigger than this neighbor needs . .
. a 56k modem that some nice person just mailed me for free to use in
this project-- a Supra express.
I can figure out how to swap in a smaller hard drive and such, but my
main questions have to do wioth OSX and OS9.
What sorts of dead-ends might I run into with OS9.x?
What sorts of problems are people having running X on this thing? Is
there a driver written for this G3 card? I was successful getting
Panther up and running on a beige G3 not too long ago using X-Post facto
. . . would it be significantly harder to accomplish the same on a Starmax?
I'm not sure but I suspect the kids are probably using macs w/ OSX in
school . . .
Anyways, I'm sure I have more questions but it'll be good to see if
anyone's out there . . .
Yours,
Howard
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