Someone was chucking this out – a G4 PowerMac with OS 8.6, a 10GB hard drive and 64MB RAM.
I spent £30 on 256MB more RAM, and stuck in it the 20GB hard drive I used to have in my BondiBlue iMac. Luckily this hard drive already had OS X on it, as this G4 doesn’t have a DVD-ROM drive. Made this drive the master, added the computer’s own drive back in as a slave, and now I have a pretty servicable computer in the back room for the kids and family – all for £30. The flooping huge Apple Studio Display gives a damn good picture too!
Still a few things to do – this is one of the very first G4 PowerMacs I think, and it only has a miserly 2 USB ports, so a USB hub is pretty essential. But it also has two Firewire ports and once I’ve flattened the 10GB drive I’m going to see if it’s up to some video editing. A DVD-ROM or CD-R drive would be cool too, if possible.
Yay, go Nanosaur!
Not in OS X, I don’t think… Classic doesn’t like it up it :-(
Mind you I can boot this machine into OS 8.6, OS 9.2 or 10.3!