Hi Howard,
I've a Starmax 300/160 with 92 MB of RAM [I think?] and a a 3 GB
drive, along with another 2 GB external SCSI drive. The system's
running OS 9.1. I don't have any problems with it in this
configuration, although I do access it as a headless Mac through my
network using Timbuktu. This S/W is much like Apple's Remote
desktop, but has been around much longer. As such, I don't need a
monitor as I can pull up on the screen of Timbuktu what would
otherwise be seen on a monitor.
The problem with this machine is that it relies on some very specific
RAM that is now hard to get. So, because of this, and the fact that
it's pretty slow, I don't bother with OS X. I prefer the interface
of OS 9 over that of X, that I've seen, so I'm pretty happy with it.
Essentially, this machine functions as an external hard drive that I
access through my network.
HTP.
Bill
At 6:07 PM -0500 20/08/2005, hnk wrote:
"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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