Latest thrift store find - Ruby iMac (400MHz G3)

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sat Jun 13 06:11:02 CDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 17:45 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> So to turn a bit more on-topic, my big thrift store find of the week
> is a 400MHz Ruby iMac.  It looks loaded with OS 10.4.2 on a 10GB
> Quantum drive, a Matsushita CD-ROM, 576MB of RAM (the original 64MB
> plus an add-on 512MB PC-133 DIMM), and no Airport/WiFi interface.  I
> found the spot for it - a pair of mounting brackets and an antenna
> cable, but no interface. :-(
> 

IIRC it's just a Prism II card.  You can still buy them *new* from
Proxim as the ORiNOCO Classic Gold.  Why?  Because a shitload of stuff
out there still uses Prism II cards and WEP as part of embedded systems.

Gordon




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