[rescue] power mac rescue

[Kurt Huhn]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:41:43 -0500
Steve Sandau wrote:

> One other neat discovery... In the 'root' of the hard drive is a file 
> entitled "About Your Power Macintosh G3." Does that mean this'll run 
> OSX? (Or maybe OpenDarwin?) Comments? Anyone know how to view the CPU
> specs?
> 

All 8500s came with a PPC 604e.  Yours is a 180Mhz (8500/180).

In order to run OS X you'll need xpostfacto (look on macsales.com, free
download) and you'll want an upgrade card to G3 or G4.  If you grab an
"About this mac" from the Apple menu (upper left) you should get a lot
of useful info.



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