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<blockquote data-quote="dflint" data-source="post: 140325" data-attributes="member: 6447"><p>Hi I got a free PPC 8600 tower from work! I want to use it in the basement as a server/music player/legacy device. </p><p>It has 360 megs or ram, a 604ev processor (whats dif between 604ev & 604e?), video audio input/output jacks , Zip drive and CD drive.</p><p></p><p>I have upgraded the OS to 9.1. </p><p>Is that as far as I can go?</p><p></p><p>I want to install a faster ethernet card. </p><p>Do they make gigabyte ethernet cards for this machine? Whats the fastest I can get? 10 Based-T is so slooooow</p><p></p><p>I also would like an ATA controller card, so I can drop a big cheap hard drive and an extra CDR burner I have laying around... any cheap suggestions that work with an 8600?</p><p></p><p>Firewire and USB would be gravy, but it's a toaster mac and I don't want to spen alot on it...</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dflint, post: 140325, member: 6447"] Hi I got a free PPC 8600 tower from work! I want to use it in the basement as a server/music player/legacy device. It has 360 megs or ram, a 604ev processor (whats dif between 604ev & 604e?), video audio input/output jacks , Zip drive and CD drive. I have upgraded the OS to 9.1. Is that as far as I can go? I want to install a faster ethernet card. Do they make gigabyte ethernet cards for this machine? Whats the fastest I can get? 10 Based-T is so slooooow I also would like an ATA controller card, so I can drop a big cheap hard drive and an extra CDR burner I have laying around... any cheap suggestions that work with an 8600? Firewire and USB would be gravy, but it's a toaster mac and I don't want to spen alot on it... Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions... [/QUOTE]
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