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After some evenings I had increased screen size of my Beige G3 from 800×600 to 1152×864 (65536 colors):
Then I installed 2 cheap ($20 each) PCI-cards in it: first is 2xCOM-ports:
and second is 1xLPT-port:
Basically it is the same card with different assembling…. Continue Reading
OK, I got Debian GNU/Linux on my desktop Power Macintosh G3 “Beige” BUT, to do this I bought MacOS 9 CD for 20 dollars on ebay:
Because I broke pre-installed MacOS by trying to install Debian on this “OldWorld” mac (see here). So, after installing MacOS 9 back I again tried to install Debian (using BootX 1.2.2 from MacOS). After a number of tries of reinstallation of both I realized that MacOS 9 and Debian CAN’T live on the same … Continue Reading
A few days ago I bought Power Macintosh G3 with PowerPC G3 processor (300MHz) for 25 dollars (and 45 shipping):
It has old Apple monitor connector and because of that I needed VGA-adapter (5 dollars on ebay) to connect my Samsung 19″ monitor to this machine:
It was shipped with MacOS 9 onboard that can handle screen dimension up to 1280×1024 (with 256 colors):… Continue Reading
I'm software developer (mostly C/C++) who relocated from Russia to United States in 2004. Lived in NY, CO and now CA. Since 1998 my Internet nickname is "Shaos" (not chaos)...