[rescue] G3 Powerbook

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Dec 20 18:08:02 CST 2003


I'm definitely interested; will contact you offlist.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:21:26PM -0600, Steve Hatle wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> I have a Wallstreet Powerbook, if that might be interesting.
> 
> 250 Mhz
> 256 MB RAM
> 10 GB disk
> CDROM
> 
> Battery holds a decent charge, and I just replaced the PRAM battery. Runs
> Jaguar.
> 
> Some things you should know:
> 
> -Jaguar is the end of the line, unless Ryan Rempel gets XpostFacto to
> support Panther on the Wallstreet
> -Can only boot OS X out of an 8 GB partition, like the beige G3's- therefore
> the disk has two partitions, an 8 and a 2
> -No Quartz Extreme support
> -Has the 13 inch screen, which LowEndMac will tell you had a lot of
> problems, but this one has been fine
> -Will support Wireless with an opensource driver from
> wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net. I've been running it with an Orinoco WaveLan
> Gold off my Airport Base Station. This driver won't support 128 bit WEP,
> however. There's a shareware ($20) driver that will.
> 
> This machine has become superfluous since work just bought me a nice shiny
> Ti 867 15-incher :-) It's not a speed demon anymore, but it does OK if you
> need a portable web/email/office type machine.
> 
> If that's interesting, let me know.
> 
> Steve
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bill bradford
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austin, texas



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