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- 300MHz 448MB SD RAM 80GB HDD DVD/CD ROM
Hey everyone! I am new here and still reading through most stuff, so If I'm in the wrong area please bump me around
I recently got a mac g3 B&W from someone and yeah thats one **** of an old mac and I heard that series wasn't all that great.
He assured me it works fine and I've noticed a main issue up front;
I've got an os 8.6 disc for it and it'll boot onto that no problems.
When I go to open the drive setup on the disc the system locks/freezes up.
He gave me a 40gb IDE drive with it and I have a tested working 80 as well. Both do the same thing. I ave also dropped out the cd rom for dvd/cd rom.
Swapping everything works fine seeing I can still boot onto the disc.
Is there some way I can get this working? ):
If not is there another OS or possibility of going OSX with this machine.
I think its only the 300/350 MHz one though, 512 MB RAM (128x4, I read it tops at 1GB which was cool)
-GEN
I recently got a mac g3 B&W from someone and yeah thats one **** of an old mac and I heard that series wasn't all that great.
He assured me it works fine and I've noticed a main issue up front;
I've got an os 8.6 disc for it and it'll boot onto that no problems.
When I go to open the drive setup on the disc the system locks/freezes up.
He gave me a 40gb IDE drive with it and I have a tested working 80 as well. Both do the same thing. I ave also dropped out the cd rom for dvd/cd rom.
Swapping everything works fine seeing I can still boot onto the disc.
Is there some way I can get this working? ):
If not is there another OS or possibility of going OSX with this machine.
I think its only the 300/350 MHz one though, 512 MB RAM (128x4, I read it tops at 1GB which was cool)
-GEN