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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-03-22 09:50:04
After helping out at the local flea market mall, I looked through the stacks of computers and found the following for $15 total:
ATX case with dead motherboard, working 250W power supply, floppy with broken face, working CD-ROM drive. Perfect for some parts I have with no case.
PowerMac 8100/110, 80MB RAM, 8GB hard disk, Sonnet Crescendo G3/400 1MB Cache [😀] ]'>, 2x CD-ROM drive. The cover is in bad shape and is missing the CD-ROM cover. Needs a battery. Also has Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8, Quark Express 4, Strata StudioPro v2.0 installed.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-03-22 10:37:48
I think you need a card in the PDS slot or a terminator for it to run.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-03-22 10:41:58
I think you need a card in the PDS slot or a terminator for it to run. Sorry - just finished editing my post. The PDS slot has the Sonnet G3/400 card in it. So far with a NuBus SuperMac card it appears to run OK except for the battery and 1-bit color depth. I'm working on getting the drivers for the video card now.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-03-22 19:15:52
Good News:
The drivers are installed for the card and it finally has something besides black/white.
Bad News:
While it will let me choose something besides 640x480, it assumes the monitor is 640x480 and treats it as a window to the resolution specified. The monitor is an Acer AL1717 17" LCD panel with a 1280x1024 resolution. The Mac-VGA adapter has no switches on it.
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Posted by: Maconthemove on 2008-03-22 20:41:18
Which video card is it?
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-03-22 21:31:26
Which video card is it? SuperMac Thunder/24 with the DSP card.
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Posted by: quinterro on 2008-03-27 10:08:34
I found in my stash a ViewSonic Mac-VGA adapter with switches. Once it was set to 1024x768, the video card set it to a slightly larger resolution. It's tiny but it's a lot better than 640x480.
Now to increase the RAM. Testing it in the 8100 case is a real pain.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-03-27 11:29:30
I love the 8100 case great design, except the hard drive area. and access to ram. But PCI slots are easy to access!
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