[Cube] "new" to me G4 Cube

[gladys pérez-almiroty]

hi:
  tiger will do you proud. it is a wonderful machine! i am glad it  
followed you home. max the ram and it will be quite spiffy. mine boots  
faster than my imac 24" 2.4ghz ;-)
g
On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:24 PM, John Flood wrote:

> What have I done???  There it was at the yard sale proud yet lonely,  
> not a single case crack and alongside of it was the flat LCD studio  
> display.  "We couldn't get it to power up this morning" was the  
> reply to the age old hosstrading question.'does it work?'  It  
> followed me home with the USB speakers keyboard, optical mouse, and  
> some sort of zip drive.
>
> The power supply turned out to be dead.  I salvaged the cable, and  
> hooked up the beast to a 19" rack mount 28volt supply I use with my  
> military radios.  Ahhhhhhh, the happy mac sound.  I had returned  
> from a long trip to the dark side.  450MHz with 320meg ram  Speedy  
> little thing for it's age.  I had always wanted one of these but  
> never could gather up the money back then.  All the memories came  
> back, my used Lisa with a hard drive!, the classic 128 with a later  
> added second FDD, ahhh do I miss swapping floppies, well perhaps  
> not.  The PB100 the first day they became available I'd say the most  
> I ever paid for a new computer, and boy I used it for years and  
> learned to hate AOL.
>
> It locks up a bit web brousing when pages ask it to do things it's  
> sw can't do but I'd like to help it out a bit.  Anyone still on this  
> list able to suggest a good version of OS10 for this beast and where  
> one might find it these days?  Ebay comes to mind.  Now I'll have to  
> learn to resist the processor upgrades.  At the very least its a  
> neat little DVD player
>
> thanks for any suggestions,
>
> John
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