[CUBE] Panther + G4 upgrades

[Rick Rodman]

>
>>  The 8500 I spoke of with the G3 card ran Mac OS 9 beautifully, but 
>> even if I'd been able to push the RAM up to 128MB, it wouldn't have 
>> run 10.0.
>
> It would if you used something like Ryan Rempel's free XPostFacto 
> utility to install Jaguar. I've been running OS X (and now Jag) on an 
> 8600/G4-400 for a couple of years, although I decided to use the 
> installer utility from Sonnet Technology (not free) with my Sonnet 
> upgrade card.

That is really neat.  Makes me wish I still had the 8500.  It was a 
reasonably compact machine with lots of expansion capability.  Your 
8600 is even more compact - connect some fast SCSI drives, and it could 
make a very nice server.