Firewire question - Beige G3 Tower

[KathyMac!]

Macintosh Digital Video List1/24/03 12:27 PMMacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com

> My wife has a 300 MHz. model.  It has
> extended the useful life of that machine another year or so.  I've even
> tried capturing video on it, using a second Maxtor 60 GB hard drive set
> up as a slave to the original, smaller hard drive (6 GB, I think).
> Works great.  No dropped frames in either capturing or printing to video.


Yeah, my tower is the 300mhz model as well. There weren't as many of those
made as there were the earlier 233 and 266 models.

I have the Revision C motherboard and the stock drive was 8gig - the largest
one made before the beige was discontinued for the B&W.

This was pretty much one of the last models off of the assembly line of the
beige G3 family and I remember being so upset a couple of months later when
the cool looking B&W was introduced. NOW...I wouldn't change for the world.
Even though those had built in USB they lacked in several of the beige
features. For instance, the AV personality card that came stock - 6 RCA ins
and outs for audio and video.

I've replaced the drive with an 80 gig, replaced the CDRom with a 24x CDRW,
added 512 mgs ram, second video card for second monitor and USB.
 I've done all of my professional audio work on it without a hitch.

The Beige G3 Tower is a great machine for anyone who is thinking of buying
an older mac.

Kathy