[G4] Gifted with a G4/500

[Ronald Steinke]

On 1 May, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Would they also boot up if a keyboard was not connected?

I couldn't say as to that. I never had one set up without a keyboard  
and mouse, even with the KVM box. It never occurred to me to do a  
setup without them.

The KVM box provided the keyboard and mouse for multiple machines at  
once, but I occasionally would set a machine up without any monitor  
connection because I was going to test different monitors for  
functionality and would be changing the monitors out one after  
another. The machine that was set up for the monitor testing would  
vary according to what model I had available to me at the time I was  
going to be testing monitors.

At first, I was using Centris and Quadra models, then I moved on to  
PowerPC models, and now I'm using G3 and G4 models. As we received  
newer models in the donations to our program, I would use the newest  
and fastest available. My main test machine now is a 677MHz Digital  
Audio G4 but it will be replaced with a dual 100Ghz QuickSilver as  
soon as I finish configuring it with the software that I use.