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lostprocess
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on: December 16, 2007, 05:08
I just brought home a 9600 I bought on Craigslist, complete with... - (2x) 4GB SCSI hard drives - 32MB ATi Nexus card (VGA) - FireWire card - 10/100 ethernet card (the on-board ethernet might be broken) and... - 1.5GB of RAM! The guy I bought it from said it was a 9600/350, overclocked to 400MHz. It had a Sonnet sticker covering the model number and when I peeled it back it said 9600/300 underneath. I trust he is correct, though, as to what is under the hood. I paid $50 for it, and got a keyboard and trackball thrown in as well. A pretty good haul, if I may say! I don't get to try it out yet, though. I moved just a few months ago, and all my old Mac stuff is in storage in another part of the state. I have a System 7.6 disk image with me, but no VGA monitor (just a 20" Apple cinema display), so no video. In a few weeks I'm going to try to retrieve what I can of my old stuff and get this machine whipped into shape. My goal is to turn it into a platform that I can throw any legacy Mac software at, and be able to run it very, very well; that is, in addition to using it for the System 7 programming I want to keep tinkering with. Since lately, I've been writing all my school papers in plain text using WriteRoom on OS X, I think I might try to switch to using BBEdit or similar on System 7. Plans: - Take out the noisy SCSI drives, add 40-80GB of quiet IDE drives. - Partitions for System 7, OS 8, Mac OS 9, Rhapsody DR2, and Yellow Dog Linux - Add WiFi, somehow. - Add a Jaz drive (I have no idea what for, but I love these things!) - Add my Voodoo 5 5500 (from storage) for Mac OS 9 - Add my Radeon Mac Edition 32MB (from storage) for DVI, so I can try my Cinema Display with System 7. - Upgrade the processor, eventually. - Ultimately, acquire a first revision 15" Apple Studio Display... I really, really, want one of these. Along the way, I'm probably going to purge as much of my old Apple hardware as I can. If I have anything good to sell, I'll be sure and post about it on the forums, here. |
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