[geeks] Appletalk anyone?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:56:03PM -0500, ward at home.zilla.nu wrote:
> You really don't want to run OS X on that box.  That 128MB bit is really
> a minimum; 256 is a good suggested comfortable level.  

Mainly doing it for "shits and grins".  Main OS is still gonna be
9.1.

> Also, you really
> need a good CPU with reasonable cache.  You might seriously want to
> downgrade to 8.1 if not even 7.6 with that little RAM.

Looking into upgrading the L2 cache to 1meg; right now I think my main
issue is RAM size...

> > Thinking about a GeForce 2MX video card and a Sonnet PCI IDE card,
> > so I can just slap a cheap 9gig IDE drive in the box, but that would
> > run around $200, and the machine isnt even worth that. 8-)
> I modified a PC GeForce MX card (AGP), and it works well in my G4.  
> However, very very few of the PCI varieties can be modified to work 
> in the Mac.

Got details on modifying the card?

> Or even a low-end iMac; you can get a reasonable early iMac for next to
> nothing these days, and it's really not hard to add an external monitor
> if you're willing to do a bit of hacking.  It's even possible to buy
> little rackmount enclosures for imac boards (no monitor, if course).

Bleh.  I'd rather have something in a "proper" case and keep using the
21"; I had a 350Mhz blueberry iMac about a year and a half ago, it was
great except for the tiny screen.  (I'm spoiled, all of my computers
here at home as well as my desk at work have 21" Sun monitors on them..)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX