[geeks] wazzis, never seen one...

[Tim H.]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:52:24 -0400
"Kurt Huhn" <kurt at k-huhn.com> wrote:

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2042528752
> 
> Was there some discussion of these a while back?  I seem to remember a
> statement that these were only sold to educational institutions...
> 
> Kurt
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With the exception of memory and the AV option and an external monitor
jack (which the auction probably doesn't have) that is the machine
sitting on my 2.5 yr old daughters little tykes table in her bedroom. 
An extremely convenient machine, all one piece.

  SCSI cdrom (8x?) IDE Hard drive.  Decent tube (not as good as the
earlier 5200, but the machine is a bunch faster.  Uses the PPC 603e
chip, so I would recommend it as a toy computer, or some kind of network
head, not a number cruncher.

  Will run Linux PPC, will not run MKLinux.

  If it doesn't have the cache dimm in it it will be a DOG.

  It is upgradeable to at least G3 with a funky little module that goes
into the cache slot and disables the 603 chip with a MacOS extension,
not sure what OSs support that.

Come to think of it I am not sure how much memory is in my daughters,
since she prefers the trackball on the arcade cabinet to a mouse it
primarily gets used as a monitor to play her Video Cassettes on.

Tim