Yep, never been used. Even still smells like new computer!

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Weee!

Very pretty!

You can find pretty much any old mac software on macintosh garden,

"http://www.macos9lives.com/" might have some stuff too.

Getting 9.2.2 and tracking down other old updates and firmware is kind of annoying and feels impossible at times.

Lubuntu

vmunix wrote:

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Nice. Is that a PPC machine?
How slow is it?

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Makes you wonder who bought those early 6x86 chips. I mean with a 40MHz bus why not just save some money and buy a 5x86 instead.

Probably bought as a stopgap CPU by someone who had already gotten all of the 6x86 bits they needed, but ran out of money when getting the CPU. That, or one died on them and they couldn't really afford to replace it.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Makes you wonder who bought those early 6x86 chips. I mean with a 40MHz bus why not just save some money and buy a 5x86 instead.

I bought the cheapest "pentium class" processor availabe (K5 75Mhz, 50Mhz FSB tho) and instead spent much more on the best motherboard I could, I remember at a given time the prize for Pentium 100Mhz was $100 and the K5 75Mhz only $40, I remember running benchmarks and my K5 was roughly the same at integers and overall performance than the P100. After that I never ever in my life considered buying an Intel CPU.

Some time after that I wanted to "upgrade" my system with a 6x86 PR200 and found that the motherboard did not support 75Mhz FSB 🤣

smeezekitty wrote:

Lubuntu

Nice. Is that a PPC machine?
How slow is it?[/quote]
you can't watch youtube videos at higer resolutions than 360p, due to the lack of flashplayer for PPC, so you have to watch them using html5 which is too heavy for this Mac, other than that everything works fine.

smeezekitty wrote:

Nice. Is that a PPC machine?

It's the same machine I just got, see pics on the previous page. PowerBook G4 "Titanium" 😁

vmunix wrote:

you can't watch youtube videos at higer resolutions than 360p, due to the lack of flashplayer for PPC, so you have to watch them using html5 which is too heavy for this Mac, other than that everything works fine.

It's incredible if you think about it, how youtube/flash has become the definite all-round usability benchmark.

jwt27 wrote:

vmunix wrote:

you can't watch youtube videos at higer resolutions than 360p, due to the lack of flashplayer for PPC, so you have to watch them using html5 which is too heavy for this Mac, other than that everything works fine.

It's incredible if you think about it, how youtube/flash has become the definite all-round usability benchmark.

I was just pondering Youtube in itself is something very incredible and puzzling.
It's large community and the concept of youtube "stars". And how something that didn't exist until 10 years ago
has now become a almost necessary fixture.

Then again, it's easy to see how a huge pool of (basically) free entertainment gets a lot of attention.

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jwt27 wrote:

vmunix wrote:

you can't watch youtube videos at higer resolutions than 360p, due to the lack of flashplayer for PPC, so you have to watch them using html5 which is too heavy for this Mac, other than that everything works fine.

It's incredible if you think about it, how youtube/flash has become the definite all-round usability benchmark.

I was just pondering Youtube in itself is something very incredible and puzzling.
It's large community and the concept of youtube "stars". And how something that didn't exist until 10 years ago
has now become a almost necessary fixture.

Then again, it's easy to see how a huge pool of (basically) free entertainment gets a lot of attention.

I would say that YouTube is my daily fix'o retro hardware..... 😁
These day's, I am using old 90's Computer Chronicles, when I go to sleep.

bought a SB AWE32 CT3900 today!

I had a SB32, always wanted the full blown AWE32 even though the difference is minimal.

This guy was listed for 77 bucks + shipping. I made him a lowball offer twice for 20 and 22 dollars or so, he refused.

Waited a week and offered him 35 and he accepted! ha!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/231446794342

i know it says untested but i took the gamble, hope it works!

Sev80 wrote:

bought a SB AWE32 CT3900 today! I had a SB32, always wanted the full blown AWE32 even though the difference is minimal. This gu […]
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bought a SB AWE32 CT3900 today!
I had a SB32, always wanted the full blown AWE32 even though the difference is minimal.
This guy was listed for 77 bucks + shipping. I made him a lowball offer twice for 20 and 22 dollars or so, he refused.
Waited a week and offered him 35 and he accepted! ha!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231446794342

i know it says untested but i took the gamble, hope it works!

Watch out for the inner SIMM socket. It looks like the retention arms are broken... hence, the need for the zip-ties and padding. Good luck.

thanks, i'll let you know how it turns out!

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I used mintppc on my old g3 at one time, it performed pretty well. You may be able to watch YouTube at higher resolutions using an application called minitube.

Sev80 wrote:

bought a SB AWE32 CT3900 today! […]
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bought a SB AWE32 CT3900 today!

I had a SB32, always wanted the full blown AWE32 even though the difference is minimal.

This guy was listed for 77 bucks + shipping. I made him a lowball offer twice for 20 and 22 dollars or so, he refused.

Waited a week and offered him 35 and he accepted! ha!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/231446794342

i know it says untested but i took the gamble, hope it works!

I was semi interested in this listing as well. Zip ties were a bit of a turn off obviously but I wouldn't of been using the added ram anyway. My main concern was that the card itself was working. I messaged the seller about testing the card and he got a little annoyed at the request. He stated he would test the card as had a computer with an ISA slot but then never got back to me. Worries me a little but I do hope it works for you.

Went to the post office eager for some new retro hardware to play with just to leave disappointed because nothing arrived 😒

Anyone know that feeling? Good news is I got so many projects to work on anayway 🤣

SquallStrife wrote:

Weee!

G'dang. Just... /wow/. What a score.

jwt27 wrote:

how youtube/flash has become the definite all-round usability benchmark.

The usability-hump I recall before that was GoogleEarth. That was what finally got me off W98. Before then, I guess it was just various games. And the web -- I remember I ran Lynx for some time before moving to hardware that could do a graphical browser.

And Youtube, yeah... yesterday I finally gave up trying to get it on the OLPC. Reading old posts I gather it was possible on the XO-1 in 2008, but it sure isn't now.

pewpewpew wrote:

And Youtube, yeah... yesterday I finally gave up trying to get it on the OLPC. Reading old posts I gather it was possible on the XO-1 in 2008, but it sure isn't now.

If you download the vídeos and play them on a vídeo player, odds are it will work. It was funny/sad seeing youtube choke my Athlon 64, but if I downloaded the vídeo and used Media Player Classic not only it played perfectly, but also with low CPU usage. I recall also using an app that, if you copy a YouTube URL to the clipboard it would automatically stream it on VLC or MPC... my younger broher had to use the Athlon 64 for a while as his main PC and this is how I managed to get it working for him.