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Discovery: Back from the Dead
« on: October 31, 2009, 09:37:45 pm »
Last night I went digging through my nerdery (room full of computer parts) and remembered that I have a 3G iMac! Well, his factory specs from 2000 are dispicable.

64MB RAM (DDR1 I believe)
10.2GB Maxtor HD
PowerPC 750 @ 400MHz

Wanting to put the beast back into service, I did some googling for instructions on how to replace the hard drive (note, it involved removing the bottom half of the machine), and stuck in a stick of RAM I had laying around.

196MB RAM
80GB Western Digital HD (factory HD from my brother's old Dell)
MacOS 9.1, 10.0.3

I find these specs to be at the very bottom edge of acceptable. Now I'm looking for some DDR1 memory, and possibly a PowerPC G4 or a faster G3.

(Note: Going to Wikipedia crashed Internet Explorer 5 Preview Edition. Go figure.)
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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Re: Discovery: Back from the Dead
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2009, 02:46:14 am »
Why would you want to buy a PPC?
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Re: Discovery: Back from the Dead
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2009, 07:01:17 pm »
I* bought it in 2000.


* No I didn't, my parents did. I was 9. :)
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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You might be right about that, Joe.

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Re: Discovery: Back from the Dead
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2009, 01:05:06 pm »
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<Camel> i said what what
<Blaze> in the butt
<Camel> you want to do it in my butt?
<Blaze> in my butt
<Camel> let's do it in the butt
<Blaze> Okay!

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Re: Discovery: Back from the Dead
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2009, 04:20:33 pm »
I was nine, it was shiny. I wanted it.
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

Quote from: AntiVirus on October 19, 2010, 02:36:52 pm
You might be right about that, Joe.

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