Bah, WinTel machines! I'm fed up with them! Especially the newer ones! ;-) I currently own half a dozen or so Macs - 2 SE/30s (one has the screen ruined), a dead IIci, 3 LCIII and a Performa 5200CD. But I couldn't access the Net with those! (the 5200 is in my grandparents' house - I'm teaching computing to them). I have a WinTel machine which is making me sick all the time - errors all the time - I often get nightmares from those! The Mac is really better in that point - when a fatal error occurs, it doesn't fill the whole screen - all it shows is a little bomb in a box (at least it's what I know, my newest OS is 7.6.1)
I really wanted to have a B&W G3, it would be nice, chipped, it would be a great machine, running OS X and so! A Mac mini would be great, though... I don't play games a lot (except Sims2, but that one I will have to resign to the ugly-faced, always-crashing WinTel machines, because the Mac versions are always late), and a mini would be the perfect companion! Greetings, Manuel Jorge M. Marques _____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://manuelmarque.no.sapo.pt -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Carlos De La Cruz Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de Maio de 2005 15:44 To: Vintage Macs Subject: Re: What to do with IIcx? I am currently using an iMac 333 for the office. I had to load it with the mst memory I could in order to run OS X. However, I found I couldn' t get it to accept more than 256Mb RAM even when I stuck a 256 SoDImm in the lower slot and a 128 on the upper one. It seems several iMacs accept more than 256, and several others don' t. However, even when it is not a speed racer, I find myself very comfortable with it, considering it has both OS9 and X, moe than enough for non-programming duties of an IT SysAdmin. Here in home, I use a B&W G3-400 which I could manage to stuff 1Gb RAM inside, and plan to expand in order to replace my WinTel machine at my home recording studio/Production facility. As soon as I can get ahold of a second Mac (Hopefully a Mini) to replace as well which was my "personal" bedroom WinTel which handled documents and email and stuff (currently handled by the B&W, but if it goes to the studio then I' ll need a second workhorse), and I Still feel comfortable. However, I plan to acquire for both macs the Sonnet upgrades. The iMac can go up to G3-600 and add the firewire port, and the B&W I plan to get up to G4-1G, which would help me much in the audio/video duties thanks to the Altivec... And still have my trusty IIci. WHat I am looking for is a cheap USB webcam I can use both in the B&W and the iMac, since the iMac has no FireWire port(yet), and I still consider the iSight a beautiful but very expensive option for what I really need on a webcam... ------------------------------------------- Juan Carlos De La Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 26/05/2005, at 07:48 PM, Glenn Emery wrote: > I was warned ... repeatedly ... that Panther 10.3 would be too slow on > an iMac G3. I have found that NOT to be true. I have two G3's that run > on Panther, and run better than they ever did on OS 9.2, which was > pretty good. I have a 333Mhz with 320mb RAM that I bought new in '99, > and a 233Mhz with 512mb RAM that I bought about a month ago at a flea > market for $120. The 333 also runs OS 9 "Classic"; the 233 does not. > > Both machines have tiny 6G hard drives that were wiped cleaned prior > to installation of Panther (my hunch is this is why they're performing > so well ... no old junk hanging them up). Both have high-speed > Internet access thanks to a Netgear router and a Motorola cable modem. > The kids use the 233 while I use the 333 and nobody has had any > problems. > > For my money, the iMac G3's are the new vintage Macs. I expect to > still have mine decades from now. I'm gonna buy another, just to mess > around with, take apart, upgrade, etc. I think they are awesome > machines. > > In the meantime, I still have that circa '89 IIcx (which started this > thread), twiddling its digital thumbs in the bedroom, trying to figure > out how to join the party. Anybody got some Connectix cameras with > software? I have an idea... > -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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