[geeks] scsi notebook drives

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Wed Jun 5 00:19:17 CDT 2002


On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 07:22 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:27:44PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>>> 8500's are fun, you can make 'em G3's for under $100 these days.
>>
>> Oh my!  I smell a project coming up :)  Will such a beast run OS X if
>> loaded with RAM?
>
> and if they do, what's it cost to get one?

Well, an 8500 can be found cheap. (I've got one I might be persuaded to 
part with.)
Add a G3 CPU - they start at <$100 at OWC.
Memory - 128M dimms are around $26 at OWC.  So, for $200-$300 you could 
build a decent OS X box...

-Pete



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