[Coco] how you work this thing lol

[James Dessart]

On 14-Sep-04, at 8:34 PM, David Hazelton wrote:

> Unless money is tight, I would try to get the newest mac that you can 
> afford.  I bought my 7300 at a junk store for $10 and he guaranteed 
> that it would work, this included the monitor.  The monitor was shot 
> after a month of use, a Mac to VGA adapter and a PC SVGA monitor.  I 
> added a $20 USB card and a G4/400mhz card of E-bay for $125.  The 7300 
> had 96MB memory and a 6GB hardrive running 9.1 and partitioned for 
> Darwin.  I got lucky.  Darwin never loaded correctly. I added 128MB of 
> memory from OWC for about $30.00 and I bought of E-bay Mac OS 10.3 for 
> $65.00.  So for me (Money tight it still cost me over $200.00 and I 
> thought I was doing good)

The 7300 might need Darwin to be recompiled (and probably modified) in 
order to run it. Apple's been slowly pulling all the (old) support for 
older machines out of their source, bit by bit. I don't see a lot of 
developer support coming either, to bring it back in and expand it. Did 
Mac OS X run on the machine? If so, then I'm surprised Darwin didn't...

You can always run linux on it. ;)

James