Most of my collection is in storage now, but I quite literally have a 5 foot tall stack of G3 and G4 towers. I didn't need another. I'm well covered on both stock and modified ones.
Last week, though, I saw one semi-local to me pop up on LEM swap on Facebook. It was priced a bit high I thought, but kept looking at it. It had one small crack in the plastic, but otherwise was perfect(I DO have a perfect B&W, which is very special to me for several reasons, but I'm sure you all know most of them are beat to crap). Otherwise it seemed like a decent 400mhz rev. B with too little RAM.
I took a closer look at it, though, and noticed a couple of things. One was that it had 3 single stack drive bays across the bottom of the case, and not the standard rev. B double stack cage. The one drive was connected by a long pale yellow cable to a card, not the LoBo.
Sure enough, it had this elusive little marking on the back
Yes, I know there's nothing especially unique about servers. I have some beige ones, including G3s and some older ones.
Still, though, for a check-the-box collector, you need one. This one is nice with its original "Jackhammer" card and a 10K 68 pin SCSI drive.
It's running 9.1 now and has some good software, so I'm reluctant to dump the install. Still, though, I'm going to try and find some 68 pin drives in storage and load it up. I'm leaning toward adding a drive for OS X Server 1.2v3(what else on a server?) and a third for 10.4.11. Alternatively, I might partition one of the drives for 1.2v3 and 10.4.11 and then do BeOS on the 3rd drive. There are lots of options.
Last week, though, I saw one semi-local to me pop up on LEM swap on Facebook. It was priced a bit high I thought, but kept looking at it. It had one small crack in the plastic, but otherwise was perfect(I DO have a perfect B&W, which is very special to me for several reasons, but I'm sure you all know most of them are beat to crap). Otherwise it seemed like a decent 400mhz rev. B with too little RAM.
I took a closer look at it, though, and noticed a couple of things. One was that it had 3 single stack drive bays across the bottom of the case, and not the standard rev. B double stack cage. The one drive was connected by a long pale yellow cable to a card, not the LoBo.
Sure enough, it had this elusive little marking on the back
Yes, I know there's nothing especially unique about servers. I have some beige ones, including G3s and some older ones.
Still, though, for a check-the-box collector, you need one. This one is nice with its original "Jackhammer" card and a 10K 68 pin SCSI drive.
It's running 9.1 now and has some good software, so I'm reluctant to dump the install. Still, though, I'm going to try and find some 68 pin drives in storage and load it up. I'm leaning toward adding a drive for OS X Server 1.2v3(what else on a server?) and a third for 10.4.11. Alternatively, I might partition one of the drives for 1.2v3 and 10.4.11 and then do BeOS on the 3rd drive. There are lots of options.
