My favourite memory of this machine’s introduction at MacWorld 1999 was that it was so easy to access the internals that attendees stole all the RAM modules from the demo units.
I owned a Power Mac 8500 in the late '90s, and I was so very envious of the Blue & White G3. It looked beautiful, and it was so easy to upgrade. Whenever I upgraded anything in my Power Mac 8500 (which I did many times, as I kept it for many years), I would nick my fingers or knuckles on some sharp edge because it was so cramped to work inside. I swear it was inevitable!
Did everyone noticed that, in the "breakout-like" demo, the "racket" was bouncing a ball which was very similar (or identical) to the Amiga's bouncing ball?
I have a soft spot for the blue g3 back in 2001 😮 I was just out of high school and wanted to work for icnet(local dial isp rip) and they were only hiring for a Apple 🖥️ tech so having played Carmen Sandiego in the school library over the years as my only mac experience I told them I was obviously their man and somehow convinced them to hire me went from interview to Barnes and Noble bought a Mac book crammed for my job that started that Monday. I still have the memory of being introduced to my desk where a beautiful blue g3 and a pc were awaited me. I was never found out and got myself up to speed in time. But I grew to love the Mac over the years and since that day I’ve always had both pc and Mac’s and I love em both
The PPC G3 beige Macs were the most standard-friendly upgradable ones; you can install pc dimms, pc pata disks (as well as legacy SCSI) and even use a pc PSU by way of a jumper in the motherboard that enabled to switch between Apple-PSU or pc ones.You can put a floopy drive, a zip drive and a dvd-rw drive even in the desktop horizontal space tight G3. By means of standard PCI slots you can add usb ports and video/sound cards too.
Is there any list of DVD drives that will work in it? I’ve read they can be picky about them. I have a beige g3 desktop I’ve upgraded with a blue and white g3 rage 128 that has a DVD decoder. Unfortunately the patched version of apple DVD doesn’t work with USB DVD drives.
That doesn't really change with any of the G4 models that followed it using the same basic system architecture design and implementing more current standards, as they were being introduced. The reason PC hardware is interchangeable is because it adherese to the same standards. And this is rather universal in workstation class systems of the period whether they use Intel x86, SPARC64, IBM POWER or PPC64 CPU ASIC. Major difference being that Sun Microsystems and Apple and IBM use IEEE-1275 standard firmware, while PC hardware is using a non-standardized firmware system, the BIOS, which is literally based on reverse engineered BIOS code from the IBM XT 8088 to this day. Two major reverse engineered BIOS solutions having gained a duopoly in licensing their BIOS for IBM PC compatible clones in the 1980s, American Megatreds or AMI and Phoenix Bios. Neither is a standard and both are barely serviceable kludged garbage. And because these systems are not intercompatible, you need to replace the non-standard BIOS firmware in PC addon hardware with a IEEE-1275 compatible version if you want a OpenFirmware to be able to initialize and use the card when booting up the system. But, if you're not trying to use a PC graphics card or hard disk controller, that's not necessary. UEFI changes this. And the reference platform for Intel EFI PCs is Apple MacBook Pro 1,1 Mac Pro and Xserve. The hardware being designed by Intel exclusively and for the express purpose of launching a mass market product of their EFI PC prototype, to have a sufficiently large user base to receive feedback with and Apple fanboys being so delusional they think that a system that boots any IA32 OS and is given an officially supported BIOS backwards compatibility layer by means of a software update for the EFI system and operating system, that this is somehow not an Intel PC system, even though, it meets every definition of the word and is officially supported by Microsoft for running their OS. Also, Apple and Intel fanboys refused to believe me, when I stated that, the purpose of this platform is to serve as the reference system for Intel to develop firmware the meets the new UEFI specification. Apple's systems being also the ones that first adopt this UEFI standard compliant firmware. And that this means that OS X will run on any UEFI "PC" just as well with very minor modifications, if it even needs any. LOL
They need a sledgehammer to be perfectly frank. I have one of the A-revision B/Ws. Apart from the flaky controller they are prone to just malfunctioning for no apparent reason. Refusing to boot for days on end and then just working as if nothing had happened. That sort of thing. They do make the ideal Rhapsody box though, thanks to that ADB port freeing up a precious USB port. Just get a later revision for peace of mind.
The ADB port on the Powermac G3 was likely also added for compatibility with software dongles such as for Logic by emagic, however it's always nice to have a fun keypad :P
I picked up one of those G3 Powermacs around 2010, with the scsi card missing. I was not aware of this problem with the ide controller. Now I finally understand why it crashed all the time on ide.
(2:16) IIRC from another TH-cam video I watched, it was also for older software licencing dongles that interfaced via ADB instead of USB, allowing users to continue using their old expensive software for a while longer before they had to upgrade to a newer version that came with a USB dongle instead, especially in corporate environments with accounting and all of that. (6:21) That reminded me of a Nostalgia Mall video where the host said that his Earthworm Jim figurine was not an official accessory from Packard Bell.
A SCSI B&W 400 was my first Mac, bought used super cheap in 2003. It was a totally usable desktop for a couple of years until I replaced it with a hackintosh in 2006. Upgraded the stock 9gb to dual 146gb.
Oh yes the Blue & White G3. The first revision definitely had some logic board bugs. I gave away two or three of them 2007-2008, from the college trash pile, though I don't recall which revision they were. I think one was a server if I recall correctly. .... I always wanted to play around with Rhapsody, but never tried.
Those original versions of Rhapsody only worked with a very small subset of SCSI cards. And really only truly liked Adaptec SCSI cards, which were ridiculously expensive for the time. Especially ones with the Mac firmware. On top of that, Rhapsody only loved a very small subset of the Adaptec cards. You should try to get one to keep on the shelf for projects like this. It'll save a lot of mystery in the future.
I did some volunteer work at a computer bank back around 2012. Scrapped a couple of machines very similar to this one. Way easier to pull apart than the iMacs. Those were a huge headache. Non-standard screws and a convoluted internal layout.
Love it. I didn't realize SCSI made the leap from beige boxes. I had a G3-333 (upgraded to G4-400) with some SCSI peripherals (like an external CD-rom and an external HD) left over from an 8500 that I abandoned when I moved to a Quicksilver 800 Dual Processor and Firewire. All the beige stuff succumbed to house cleaning though I still have the Quicksilver.
Rhapsody was the only beta operating system version I refused to install on my Mac back in mid-late 90s because of too many changes from System 8.x. Thanks for the video!
I’ve always wanted to see the first versions of Mac osx. There’s a keynote when they first showed off mac OSX and it still had the classic skin to it. Like they had the backend complete but didn’t have the UI designed yet. Seeing them display a “Mac OSX” wallpaper on a classic GUI was interesting to see.
From my understanding the Mac Os X GUI was already an existing theme for classic Mac. More than likely when Rhapsody was being developed they probably had no intention of changing the classic look and feel, until someone started apply themes to give it new look and everyone said WOW! Of course I wasn't there so I'm speculating.
I remembered this morning I had one of these sitting in the cupboard that I'd picked years ago. Years ago, in the days before I knew about things like "hey, that battery is ABSOLUTELY going to leak"... So... the battery has leaked. Not badly, but enough to have to do a little cleanup. Sigh. Luckily it's a Rev 2 controller chip I see, so that's going to make getting it up and running a little easier by the sounds of things.
I find Rhapsody quite intriguing, it really does seem like all the functionality of Mac OS X was present at this early stage and all that was left was to Aqua-fy it. Spins me out seeing OS 8.6 in the Yellow Box, rather than OS 9.
Man, what a peculiar moment in computing history, and perhaps industrial design in general. It was just a blip in the grand sceme of things, but it's something people will be revisiting for many decades.
I got a blue and white from my grandparents' graphic design business. I love that blueberry color! It's amazing how much faster my graphite g4 is, and it only came out a year later!
Is there a way of finding one of those ominous dev copies of Copland to install on an early PPC Mac? That would be an idea for content if it isn't already done.
I used one of these servers for years, starting with Server 1.0 and upgrading to 1.1 then 1.2 . I remember it being quirky but once I got it set up, it was a reliable server for many years. Mine was a 350mHz as I remember.
I've been able to get a PowerMac G3 Tower Beige , but Rhapsody wants SCSI Drive. (Says the Facebook seller, he has it installed with SCSI). This is the beige G3 tower, but in your video you are trying it with the G3 Blue / White, So I'm wondering if the Beige will like SCSI or the Hyperdisk IDE Flash you used?
The message you got about “the scsi disk is unreadable” just means the disk is either unformatted or formatted with an unrecognised filesystem. That's why it says, “Click Initialize to completely erase the disk and format it for Mac OS X Server.” You would've had the same exact problem on modern macOS.
Could you Mr. Actionretro or someone do me a favor, and tell me what hardware (or find me a good site) the x86 version of Rapsody supports, im going to attempt to run it on PCem. Couldnt locate iny usefull information when i searched for it myself and im pretty good at finding things.
Super neat. I wish I had more time to do this kinda stuff. This era of Mac desktops is my favorite. I have an MDD G4 and a Quicksilver G4, both dual CPU. Just can't find any time to spend with them...
I have one of these G3's and have always had trouble finding a hard drive that works reliably on it. I'm not really an apple guy so I always thought I was doing something wrong. Think I've got an old SCSI card somewhere. Might give it a go.
It looks like you're trying Mac OS X Server 1.2 because your MacOS Classic is using 8.6. I think you would have had better luck with the Adaptec SCSI card if you had used Mac OS X Server 1.2v3, which also contains Classic Mac OS 9 instead of 8.6. 1.2v3 was updated to support more hardware that had been released since the initial versions of 1.2.
The PMG4s were freaking awesome, the G5s were more powerful but had later coolant leak issues and the G3s were awesome but had limitations. Nevertheless, you are right. Any PowerPC Gx series Mac is better than its predecessors.
And then I learned that that fluke eBay buy I stumbled across after deployment, was a rev1 B+W 😗Good tip on the IDE DOM btw :D Would love to find an aftermarket remanufacturer of the plastic body components though, seller didn't know how to wrap the thing for shipping. These PowerPC mod videos always are motivational and inspirational, Sean, keep on keepin' on duder
As a former owner of one of these unreliable machines - the IDE controller only became unstable with drives over a certain size. I believe it was 8 gigs. SCSI card was not standard on the early ones because the drives that came with the machines were under the size limit and completely stable. It was only when you did aftermarket upgrades that things went badly. Which of course meant Apple basically got to act like they weren't responsible. SCSI card was something you had to pay for. Apple had no interest in fixing their own issues.
Isn't it crazy that they used that same case for countless models? (...now that I think about it, that's not crazy at all for apple in any time period lmao) But the G3 and G4 were the most noticeable. The G3 blue and white was just a different class of computer from the later mirror-drive-doors G4, despite the case being almost identical. Also, the case wasn't *totally* identical between them. Each version did its own thing with the design.
I have one of those IDE DOMs. They are so generic that I have never seen one not get detect by the bios and like it as a drive. It's just nice not having a spinning disk in my win98 machine anymore.
Amazing, you are using the same combination as my luggage...Change the combination of my luggage (shouted to my cat) Bonus points for everyone who gets the reference tribute there. :)
My favourite memory of this machine’s introduction at MacWorld 1999 was that it was so easy to access the internals that attendees stole all the RAM modules from the demo units.
That flakey IDE controller was the second worst U2 thing that Apple squeezed into their devices.
lol - don't let Bono see this.
@@a4e69636b Bono, my IDE controller is gone
Hello hello yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeeaahhh!!!
"I still haven't found the connection I'm looking for"
No less than 80 Courics in weight
Don’t forget when you’re in the classic Mac OS within OS X Server, you can go into the multitasking menu in the top right to go between classic and X
4:39 Oh my, the infamous CMD-646 IDE controller.
What was wrong with it?
I owned a Power Mac 8500 in the late '90s, and I was so very envious of the Blue & White G3. It looked beautiful, and it was so easy to upgrade. Whenever I upgraded anything in my Power Mac 8500 (which I did many times, as I kept it for many years), I would nick my fingers or knuckles on some sharp edge because it was so cramped to work inside. I swear it was inevitable!
Same for me with my Beige G3.
I upgraded from the 7100 to the B&W G3. It was AWESOME. The ability to upgrade it was really just great.
Did everyone noticed that, in the "breakout-like" demo, the "racket" was bouncing a ball which was very similar (or identical) to the Amiga's bouncing ball?
Sean, you missed a golden pun opportunity, should have named your video "Rhapsody in Blue" after the jazz song! 😂
I have a soft spot for the blue g3 back in 2001 😮 I was just out of high school and wanted to work for icnet(local dial isp rip) and they were only hiring for a Apple 🖥️ tech so having played Carmen Sandiego in the school library over the years as my only mac experience I told them I was obviously their man and somehow convinced them to hire me went from interview to Barnes and Noble bought a Mac book crammed for my job that started that Monday. I still have the memory of being introduced to my desk where a beautiful blue g3 and a pc were awaited me. I was never found out and got myself up to speed in time. But I grew to love the Mac over the years and since that day I’ve always had both pc and Mac’s and I love em both
The PPC G3 beige Macs were the most standard-friendly upgradable ones; you can install pc dimms, pc pata disks (as well as legacy SCSI) and even use a pc PSU by way of a jumper in the motherboard that enabled to switch between Apple-PSU or pc ones.You can put a floopy drive, a zip drive and a dvd-rw drive even in the desktop horizontal space tight G3.
By means of standard PCI slots you can add usb ports and video/sound cards too.
Is there any list of DVD drives that will work in it? I’ve read they can be picky about them. I have a beige g3 desktop I’ve upgraded with a blue and white g3 rage 128 that has a DVD decoder. Unfortunately the patched version of apple DVD doesn’t work with USB DVD drives.
That doesn't really change with any of the G4 models that followed it using the same basic system architecture design and implementing more current standards, as they were being introduced. The reason PC hardware is interchangeable is because it adherese to the same standards. And this is rather universal in workstation class systems of the period whether they use Intel x86, SPARC64, IBM POWER or PPC64 CPU ASIC. Major difference being that Sun Microsystems and Apple and IBM use IEEE-1275 standard firmware, while PC hardware is using a non-standardized firmware system, the BIOS, which is literally based on reverse engineered BIOS code from the IBM XT 8088 to this day. Two major reverse engineered BIOS solutions having gained a duopoly in licensing their BIOS for IBM PC compatible clones in the 1980s, American Megatreds or AMI and Phoenix Bios. Neither is a standard and both are barely serviceable kludged garbage.
And because these systems are not intercompatible, you need to replace the non-standard BIOS firmware in PC addon hardware with a IEEE-1275 compatible version if you want a OpenFirmware to be able to initialize and use the card when booting up the system. But, if you're not trying to use a PC graphics card or hard disk controller, that's not necessary.
UEFI changes this. And the reference platform for Intel EFI PCs is Apple MacBook Pro 1,1 Mac Pro and Xserve. The hardware being designed by Intel exclusively and for the express purpose of launching a mass market product of their EFI PC prototype, to have a sufficiently large user base to receive feedback with and Apple fanboys being so delusional they think that a system that boots any IA32 OS and is given an officially supported BIOS backwards compatibility layer by means of a software update for the EFI system and operating system, that this is somehow not an Intel PC system, even though, it meets every definition of the word and is officially supported by Microsoft for running their OS.
Also, Apple and Intel fanboys refused to believe me, when I stated that, the purpose of this platform is to serve as the reference system for Intel to develop firmware the meets the new UEFI specification. Apple's systems being also the ones that first adopt this UEFI standard compliant firmware.
And that this means that OS X will run on any UEFI "PC" just as well with very minor modifications, if it even needs any.
LOL
Rhapsody in Blue would also have been a good hostname
"These machines aren't unreliable...they just need a little extra love." I felt that one heheh
They need a sledgehammer to be perfectly frank. I have one of the A-revision B/Ws. Apart from the flaky controller they are prone to just malfunctioning for no apparent reason. Refusing to boot for days on end and then just working as if nothing had happened. That sort of thing. They do make the ideal Rhapsody box though, thanks to that ADB port freeing up a precious USB port. Just get a later revision for peace of mind.
The ADB port on the Powermac G3 was likely also added for compatibility with software dongles such as for Logic by emagic, however it's always nice to have a fun keypad :P
Your comment at the end of the video inspired me to install all the developer previews on my B&W! Hoping to stream about them during Marchintosh
ay nice to see more rhapsody content, always wanted to see more about this awkward step in mac os's history
I picked up one of those G3 Powermacs around 2010, with the scsi card missing. I was not aware of this problem with the ide controller. Now I finally understand why it crashed all the time on ide.
(2:16) IIRC from another TH-cam video I watched, it was also for older software licencing dongles that interfaced via ADB instead of USB, allowing users to continue using their old expensive software for a while longer before they had to upgrade to a newer version that came with a USB dongle instead, especially in corporate environments with accounting and all of that.
(6:21) That reminded me of a Nostalgia Mall video where the host said that his Earthworm Jim figurine was not an official accessory from Packard Bell.
2:17 Or ADB license dongles, common for expensive pro software
Oh I forgot those were a thing
A SCSI B&W 400 was my first Mac, bought used super cheap in 2003. It was a totally usable desktop for a couple of years until I replaced it with a hackintosh in 2006. Upgraded the stock 9gb to dual 146gb.
Oh yes the Blue & White G3. The first revision definitely had some logic board bugs. I gave away two or three of them 2007-2008, from the college trash pile, though I don't recall which revision they were. I think one was a server if I recall correctly. .... I always wanted to play around with Rhapsody, but never tried.
Those original versions of Rhapsody only worked with a very small subset of SCSI cards. And really only truly liked Adaptec SCSI cards, which were ridiculously expensive for the time. Especially ones with the Mac firmware. On top of that, Rhapsody only loved a very small subset of the Adaptec cards. You should try to get one to keep on the shelf for projects like this. It'll save a lot of mystery in the future.
The venerable AHA2940UW was a popular choice and the PC version can be flashed to Mac if you can find the Power Domain firmware.
Quake, hell yeah! Man, I love seeing the classic pre osx ui. Reminds me of my childhood ^_^
I did some volunteer work at a computer bank back around 2012. Scrapped a couple of machines very similar to this one. Way easier to pull apart than the iMacs. Those were a huge headache. Non-standard screws and a convoluted internal layout.
4:48 U2 coming back to plague Apple
Love it. I didn't realize SCSI made the leap from beige boxes. I had a G3-333 (upgraded to G4-400) with some SCSI peripherals (like an external CD-rom and an external HD) left over from an 8500 that I abandoned when I moved to a Quicksilver 800 Dual Processor and Firewire. All the beige stuff succumbed to house cleaning though I still have the Quicksilver.
My first mac was a PowerMac G4 FW800 with a SCSI card and four SCSI HDDs in RAID 0 lol. I got it for free in 2011.
It's always fun seeing these machines, watching your shenanigans, and learning from you.
Rhapsody was the only beta operating system version I refused to install on my Mac back in mid-late 90s because of too many changes from System 8.x. Thanks for the video!
I totally remember installing Mac OS X Server! Haven't thought about it in a long long time.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who called my B&W G3 Server running Mac OS X Server 1.2 "Bluehemian Rhapsody". :-D
I’ve always wanted to see the first versions of Mac osx. There’s a keynote when they first showed off mac OSX and it still had the classic skin to it. Like they had the backend complete but didn’t have the UI designed yet.
Seeing them display a “Mac OSX” wallpaper on a classic GUI was interesting to see.
From my understanding the Mac Os X GUI was already an existing theme for classic Mac. More than likely when Rhapsody was being developed they probably had no intention of changing the classic look and feel, until someone started apply themes to give it new look and everyone said WOW! Of course I wasn't there so I'm speculating.
I remembered this morning I had one of these sitting in the cupboard that I'd picked years ago. Years ago, in the days before I knew about things like "hey, that battery is ABSOLUTELY going to leak"...
So... the battery has leaked. Not badly, but enough to have to do a little cleanup. Sigh.
Luckily it's a Rev 2 controller chip I see, so that's going to make getting it up and running a little easier by the sounds of things.
@9:28 the whole reason you did this project was to call it that, wasn't it?
Random thought. Once booted Rhapsody saw the SCSI drive, just unformatted? If you were to initialise the drive and go back into the installer……?
The port on top of that Adaptec card is a 68-pin Ultra Wide 160. It supports both SE (Single End) and LVD (Low Voltage Differential) standards.
Yes, more Rhapsody! My favorite!
I find Rhapsody quite intriguing, it really does seem like all the functionality of Mac OS X was present at this early stage and all that was left was to Aqua-fy it. Spins me out seeing OS 8.6 in the Yellow Box, rather than OS 9.
Man, what a peculiar moment in computing history, and perhaps industrial design in general. It was just a blip in the grand sceme of things, but it's something people will be revisiting for many decades.
My dad had brought home a G3 from work and had OS X Server installed on it, and I got to experience this as a kid, Blue Box and all!
I got a blue and white from my grandparents' graphic design business. I love that blueberry color! It's amazing how much faster my graphite g4 is, and it only came out a year later!
love the g3 case
Very cool.
Wonder what kind of DOS compatible card shenanigans he could get up to🤔
Evil Shenanigans!
Lovely machine and great video, thanks for this, always loved the Blue Macs.
Is there a way of finding one of those ominous dev copies of Copland to install on an early PPC Mac? That would be an idea for content if it isn't already done.
The whole video would be simply rebooting the thing. Copland was notoriously capable of crashing while idle.
I used one of these servers for years, starting with Server 1.0 and upgrading to 1.1 then 1.2 . I remember it being quirky but once I got it set up, it was a reliable server for many years. Mine was a 350mHz as I remember.
I still got my G4 tower, best reasonable priced Mac ever for upgrading and I did everything I could.
It was sad to see the Power Mac G3 get discontinued, but it was at least replaced by the Power Mac G3
Great review, great channel
That's a good looking piece of kit.
I love that the Doctors on your shirt are pointing their screwdrivers at the G3
Did you update the firmware from the Utilities Folder on the CD?
I've been able to get a PowerMac G3 Tower Beige , but Rhapsody wants SCSI Drive. (Says the Facebook seller, he has it installed with SCSI). This is the beige G3 tower, but in your video you are trying it with the G3 Blue / White, So I'm wondering if the Beige will like SCSI or the Hyperdisk IDE Flash you used?
"Bondie."
"No, it's bondai."
"Listen to yourself, not it's not. Wilhite was wrong, this is wrong."
The message you got about “the scsi disk is unreadable” just means the disk is either unformatted or formatted with an unrecognised filesystem. That's why it says, “Click Initialize to completely erase the disk and format it for Mac OS X Server.” You would've had the same exact problem on modern macOS.
Retro, does that hideous yellow power connector sticker add 8 Macbench points or something? Rip that off!! 😂
I have the matching 15" Apple Studio Display.
How about installing OpenBSD on this Blue and White G3? I have one. I need to get it out of storage and check the chip to see which one I have.
Could you Mr. Actionretro or someone do me a favor, and tell me what hardware (or find me a good site) the x86 version of Rapsody supports, im going to attempt to run it on PCem. Couldnt locate iny usefull information when i searched for it myself and im pretty good at finding things.
Blue & white? I've always known them as Smurf Towers since they were new.
I'm glad my Sawtooth G4 from later in 1999 looked better. It still does, no need to emulate old games- I just play them.
I love how the guys on your shirt are pointing their guns at the G3 lol
You are amazing. Love it! Thanks a lot!
I remember putting a SATA controller in one of these: not for speed, but for the SATA harddisk goodness.
Running a Rhapsody Dev version (v3 if i remember correctly) for Intel.
No better combination than old Mac hardware and an ubergeek (and I mean that in the best possible way) with a sense of humor.
Super neat. I wish I had more time to do this kinda stuff. This era of Mac desktops is my favorite. I have an MDD G4 and a Quicksilver G4, both dual CPU. Just can't find any time to spend with them...
I have one of these G3's and have always had trouble finding a hard drive that works reliably on it. I'm not really an apple guy so I always thought I was doing something wrong. Think I've got an old SCSI card somewhere. Might give it a go.
Ah, the first time U2 screwed up Apple's reputation.
Now I want a Blue & White.
I think Bondi was a way better color than Blueberry. I wonder why they discontinued it so fast
It looks like you're trying Mac OS X Server 1.2 because your MacOS Classic is using 8.6. I think you would have had better luck with the Adaptec SCSI card if you had used Mac OS X Server 1.2v3, which also contains Classic Mac OS 9 instead of 8.6. 1.2v3 was updated to support more hardware that had been released since the initial versions of 1.2.
0:17 How did you convince Mr. Regular to perform as Steve Jobs?
Ah, the good ol' reliable AHA-2940. Rock solid in all its variants.
LVDS scsi was the best!
…..unless you bent pins of course 😂
I think I have that model card. If not, it may be pretty close. It will boot a 68-pin SCSI drive in my PM7500.
On a Pc, that scsi IDE card would need a driver. You might find the card, in the Mac equivalent of device manager, wanting a now obsolete driver.
Can someone explain to me why the CPU heat sink is grounded?
i miss these thing's they were all over my high school and the first computer i edited video on
Dumb question and I'm sure you tried this, but would initializing the SCSI drive under Rhapsody allow the Rhapsody installer to work on it?
ps how many modern upgrades could you install into it
Can you copy the disk image from the IDE drive and copy it to a SCSI hard disk and try to mount it?
I didn't know that there's a version of Rhapsody available for download. Will certainly give it a try.
The old Gx Mac's were great machines.
The PMG4s were freaking awesome, the G5s were more powerful but had later coolant leak issues and the G3s were awesome but had limitations. Nevertheless, you are right. Any PowerPC Gx series Mac is better than its predecessors.
wasnt it just the code name for there os 9?
Did those ever come in any other colors besides blue? Or was that just the iBook and iMac?
The G3 only came in blue
And then I learned that that fluke eBay buy I stumbled across after deployment, was a rev1 B+W 😗Good tip on the IDE DOM btw :D
Would love to find an aftermarket remanufacturer of the plastic body components though, seller didn't know how to wrap the thing for shipping.
These PowerPC mod videos always are motivational and inspirational, Sean, keep on keepin' on duder
I love it when my favorite wiggle wubbler puts out a new Mac video 🕺🕺🤠🤠🤠
I think the design of the new G3 Powermac is the best one ever.
The Green and Yellow, you mean?
I specifically recall Rhapsody required an IDE drive
no classic cube??? well, this channel is no longer the same 😉😉
nice vid as always Sean
As a former owner of one of these unreliable machines - the IDE controller only became unstable with drives over a certain size. I believe it was 8 gigs. SCSI card was not standard on the early ones because the drives that came with the machines were under the size limit and completely stable. It was only when you did aftermarket upgrades that things went badly. Which of course meant Apple basically got to act like they weren't responsible. SCSI card was something you had to pay for. Apple had no interest in fixing their own issues.
looks like you didn't fix the character encoding with frogfind.
We called this machine; the G3: Smurf; and, the Green G4 was called Yikes.
Isn't it crazy that they used that same case for countless models?
(...now that I think about it, that's not crazy at all for apple in any time period lmao)
But the G3 and G4 were the most noticeable. The G3 blue and white was just a different class of computer from the later mirror-drive-doors G4, despite the case being almost identical.
Also, the case wasn't *totally* identical between them. Each version did its own thing with the design.
I have one of those IDE DOMs. They are so generic that I have never seen one not get detect by the bios and like it as a drive. It's just nice not having a spinning disk in my win98 machine anymore.
I have one in my SuperMac 600e clone. Works great.
That G3 PowerMac (and the G4s) still look far nicer than the latest Mac Pro, imho.
Stupid question, can we replace that motherboard with an MiniITX? Yea, blasphemous. Just curiosity. lol
This is the shortest episode of ActionRetro
I sold my BnW with the g4 1ghz sonnet card years ago…..I still regret that.😢
5:03 Man Apple really likes torturing everyone with U2.
I have a G4 in my collection it has the 533 mhz processor and 256 ram
Amazing, you are using the same combination as my luggage...Change the combination of my luggage (shouted to my cat)
Bonus points for everyone who gets the reference tribute there. :)
Don't suppose you have access to the 2.0 chip then you could get your buddy at mac84 to install it
Was NOT the "last" version of OS X Server if it used Platinum.