[geeks] Appletalk anyone?

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I gotta get a bigger-than-1.2 gig SCSI HD (anybody got a 2-to-4-gig
> 3.5" half-height 50-pin narrow SE one for sale?) and more RAM (OSX
> "recommends" 128meg minimum, and I've only got 48) before I can do
> that...  Right now 9.1 is running, but slowly with only 256k L2
> cache and 48meg system RAM.

Good luck getting cache for the thing :)

> 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-)

You mean "around $200 for the GeForce card and drive", right?
Mac-specific PCI IDE cards are damn cheap on eBay, as long as you avoid
the ones with a Promise chipset - those go for 5x what the PC version
goes for on eBay.

Hell, I've got a ATA33 Acard unit here you can *have* if that's what
you're lookin' for :)

> its nearing the line of "would be cheaper to just buy a barebones
> blue and white g3".

And you wouldn't need any special hacks to get OSX to run on it.  And be
much faster.  And parts are cheaper to get (they take the same PC100
memory that's so cheap these days :)

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch at tux.creighton.edu

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