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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Yet another free PPC for me. | Posted by: baraktorvan on 2016-10-30 22:06:12
Okay, I got the free 7300 two years ago, and on Friday I picked up a free 9600/300 upgraded with a Sonnet G4 1Ghz processor, 1.2GB of RAM, a Sonnet USB/FW400 card, an ATI Radeon 9200LT video, two 32GB SCSI UHD drives, two SATA drives (on a Sonnet TSATA) each 1 GB. The Extended II keyboard was included, as well as an ADB extension cord. There is also a SCSI Zip 250 and a SCSI DVRW (HP model).
Added to the bundle, 56 CDs of software (all PPC), the original CD that came with the machine, plus OS9 CDs, OS X CDs/DVDs.
It is in near factory condition, all clean as a whistle and not a single mark or scratch. It even has a nice wood base that was cut to exactly the size of the 9600 case for it to sit on. It comes from a retired Apple employee.
9.2.2 is installed thanks to OS9 Helper, 10.4.11 will be done tomorrow on the other drive using XpostFacto. I have no idea what to do with drives 3 and 4 other than move music, movies, and television shows over to it. I am looking at the CDs over the next few days to determine what to install or not.
Talk about an abundance!
| Posted by: wthww on 2016-10-30 22:56:03
That is a really great system, congrats!
//wthww
| Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-10-31 06:13:01
Holy sh*t, all of that for free? What an impressive haul! That 9600 is basically a six slot G4 and that's just plain awesome.
| Posted by: 604ev on 2016-10-31 11:11:07
Welcome to the canteen 🙂
| Posted by: ziggy29 on 2016-11-04 12:27:28
Nice. I've been killing myself trying to get a Sonnet G4 upgrade of 700 MHz or better for my 7600 for less than what feels like half a million dollars, and one just falls into your lap? I'm insanely jealous.
| Posted by: DarthNvader on 2017-03-03 18:02:22
Those extra drives are a perfect home for LinuxPPC.
I still miss my old PM8600 with a Sonnet 450Mhz G3 and Voodoo3. I mostly ran Linux, and fired up OS 9 and OS X with Mac-on-Linux.
I don't know if MOL's kernel module will build with the later kernels, but you should be able to get direct rendering( HW OpenGL ) working on your Radeon 9200 under the latest DebianPPC.
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