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| The new G3 all-in-one | |
| Posted by: jhorvath911 on 2015-02-13 15:55:10 Got the first of my G3 all-in-ones running. I installed virtual of with windows 95 then installed Microsoft rdp which is happily letting me download files directly to the hard drive of the Mac.  | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-02-13 16:28:05 Nice! Cute but big machines. | |
| Posted by: unity on 2015-02-13 16:39:38 Nice! I like these for some reason. They were also the first G3 computers my High School got. I have one now and was playing with it last night. But the top clear plastic piece is smashed and I can not find a replacement anywhere. I think people just scrap em. If you think shipping an II is bad, ship one of these! | |
| Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2015-02-13 16:55:09 it's a shame that MS never released an RDP client for Mac OS pre-X | |
| Posted by: jhorvath911 on 2015-02-13 18:04:58 Unity: I actually snagged about 6 of these so far. Is that the only part you're looking for cause I've got them. | |
| Posted by: unity on 2015-02-13 18:43:23 Ya, just that. My front clear volume buttons are pressed inside too. But I am not sure if that means something snapped or if I can get them back in position. I never took one of these apart. | |
| Posted by: markyb86 on 2015-02-13 18:49:19 Are you RDP'd into the virtual 95? I'm confused, the Microsoft Internet Explorer looks like the version 4.0 from Windows 95. EDIT: or is that 6.0 from a Windows XP machine? | |
| Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2015-02-13 18:59:33 It's RDP from the Windows 95 VM to an XP box running IE6. The colour depth on the VM is limited to 256 colours. (RDP versions pre-XP would be limited to 256 colours as well, but this is the XP client and server.) | |
| Posted by: jhorvath911 on 2015-02-13 20:06:46 Yeah that's what I did. I need to throw a newer browser on there but it was a fresh install of the system. | |
| Posted by: markyb86 on 2015-02-13 20:08:24 You could grab Classilla if that's Mac OS 9 you're running windows on top of. I use it in 8.6 as well. | |
| Posted by: jhorvath911 on 2015-02-13 20:23:50 Yeah this was more of a project just because I had picked up a boxed copy of virtual pc and wanted something to use it for. | |
| Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2015-02-17 04:16:25 Good snag! I had a combination of these and 7200s in high school and picked one up myself last year. They make great bridge machines if you get the right upgrades. | |
| Posted by: MinerAl on 2015-02-17 12:33:25 Those AIOs were super popular that very first year (1996?) of E-Rate distributions to schools from the extra fees collected on U.S. phone bills. When I was filling out the (ridiculous) paperwork to get our school some E-Rate funds, the district we were filing through gave us two choices: AIO G3s or generic Pentium PCs. I remember the day they delivered 12 of these to our loading dock in the basement, and I got to carry them all up the stairs to my 3rd floor computer lab. Boxed weight was ~80lbs. Quite a workout! I think I got 12 fruity iMacs two years later. Much easier to lug upstairs! | |
| Posted by: Syntho on 2015-02-17 15:05:33 What's the noise level on those things? | |
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