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<blockquote data-quote="Millsy" data-source="post: 44943"><p>Well, I just won an auction on E-bay for 8 G3 laptops and a bunch of parts, all in different stages of not having stuff. </p><p></p><p>So far I've figured out that 4 of them have CPU's (266mhz) couple of them have RAM, 3 have HDD's (2 and 4gb).</p><p></p><p>A friend is going to bring over his power adapter (none of them have batts) and we will begin testing everything.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>These are my first Macs, been a PC guy for as long as I can remember, hated Macs in high school, but found out that was because they were really crappy, and completely locked down by an inept tech guy. After using my friends G3 (desktop model) I've found I like the hardware quite a bit (Enough that I bought a MAC USB keyboard for my PC, and I have a lian-li PC-V1000 case that looks almost exactly like the new G5 cases). And would love to see quite a few features of OS 9.2 in windows.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But back to the point, where do I start once I figure out what works? In addition to the 8 laptops (13 and 14" screens) I have 7 extra screens. 5 total hard drives (3) 2gb, (1) 4gb, (1) 8gb. And 4 Extra CPU's ranging from 233-266mhz (2 probably won't work according to the stickers on them).</p><p></p><p>I'm willing to bet I can get 2 or 3 fully functional laptops out of the batch. What's the best place to get parts for them. (CD-rom, batt's, hdd's ... etc)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Also, about the screens, is it possible to get a VGA adapter for them? (It would be kind of sweet to have a 14" screen on the side of my case or something as a 2nd monitor)</p><p></p><p></p><p>What else do i need to know, what programs do I "Need" any bugs to worry about (my friend told me that each laptop will probably need to have the bios flashed to install OS 9 on them) Anything else?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for any advice. This is kinda fun, soooo many computer parts, new kind of hardware for me in 2 ways, never had a mac, and never had a laptop before, now I have tons of them!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Millsy, post: 44943"] Well, I just won an auction on E-bay for 8 G3 laptops and a bunch of parts, all in different stages of not having stuff. So far I've figured out that 4 of them have CPU's (266mhz) couple of them have RAM, 3 have HDD's (2 and 4gb). A friend is going to bring over his power adapter (none of them have batts) and we will begin testing everything. These are my first Macs, been a PC guy for as long as I can remember, hated Macs in high school, but found out that was because they were really crappy, and completely locked down by an inept tech guy. After using my friends G3 (desktop model) I've found I like the hardware quite a bit (Enough that I bought a MAC USB keyboard for my PC, and I have a lian-li PC-V1000 case that looks almost exactly like the new G5 cases). And would love to see quite a few features of OS 9.2 in windows. But back to the point, where do I start once I figure out what works? In addition to the 8 laptops (13 and 14" screens) I have 7 extra screens. 5 total hard drives (3) 2gb, (1) 4gb, (1) 8gb. And 4 Extra CPU's ranging from 233-266mhz (2 probably won't work according to the stickers on them). I'm willing to bet I can get 2 or 3 fully functional laptops out of the batch. What's the best place to get parts for them. (CD-rom, batt's, hdd's ... etc) Also, about the screens, is it possible to get a VGA adapter for them? (It would be kind of sweet to have a 14" screen on the side of my case or something as a 2nd monitor) What else do i need to know, what programs do I "Need" any bugs to worry about (my friend told me that each laptop will probably need to have the bios flashed to install OS 9 on them) Anything else? Thanks for any advice. This is kinda fun, soooo many computer parts, new kind of hardware for me in 2 ways, never had a mac, and never had a laptop before, now I have tons of them! [/QUOTE]
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