Just acquired a free G3/233 with no HD or CD-ROM. I'm looking to set it up as a webserver for the time being running OS X, of course. It's got the stock 2MB RagePro graphics chip, 32MB RAM. I have a PC100 128MB chip from a B&W I'll throw in, plus a G3 350 processor to speed it up a tad, and a 12GB IDE hard drive to give it some space.
here's my questions: I want better video performance, I don't want to spend a lot of $. I've heard that the Voodoo2 is a good choice for this, but does anyone know of any compatibility issues with OS X? AFAIK, I don't think there are OS X drivers for the Voodoo line of cards. Anyone else have any suggestions for better graphics performance? i don't want to get the 4MB card for the RagePro to max it out to 6MB because OS X doesn't support hardware acceleration on this chip at all. *blarg!* Any suggestions?
Also, the only CD-ROM I have to put in it is a 52x cheap-o PC drive that may or may not work. Alternately, i can hook up an external Apple 6x CD-ROM SCSI drive, but will it install OS X? I can use it to install OS 9 for sure, but i'm looking to keep this machine as classic-free as possible.
So any general suggestions that anyone could make as far as the best way to economically raise this thing from the dead (it was literally pulled dumpster at a University) would be great. I hate seeing good Macs go to waste.
And this brings me up to lucky 7 Macs!
here's my questions: I want better video performance, I don't want to spend a lot of $. I've heard that the Voodoo2 is a good choice for this, but does anyone know of any compatibility issues with OS X? AFAIK, I don't think there are OS X drivers for the Voodoo line of cards. Anyone else have any suggestions for better graphics performance? i don't want to get the 4MB card for the RagePro to max it out to 6MB because OS X doesn't support hardware acceleration on this chip at all. *blarg!* Any suggestions?
Also, the only CD-ROM I have to put in it is a 52x cheap-o PC drive that may or may not work. Alternately, i can hook up an external Apple 6x CD-ROM SCSI drive, but will it install OS X? I can use it to install OS 9 for sure, but i'm looking to keep this machine as classic-free as possible.
So any general suggestions that anyone could make as far as the best way to economically raise this thing from the dead (it was literally pulled dumpster at a University) would be great. I hate seeing good Macs go to waste.
And this brings me up to lucky 7 Macs!