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What does it do when you try to power it on?  Any lights, noises, or movement?  And which g3 is it?
Does it look like this one?
This one?
Or one of these? (there's also a desktop model that looks like this tower)

You know he means PowerMac G3 ...

Go easy on the man, he's new.

That said, once you answer majesky's questions, we can be of better help.

Hi, yes sorry wasn't too clear on my description, it's a yosemite, blue and white power mac G3.

Since my 1st post I've put in a new 3.6v batt and it now turns on, but all I get on the screen is a small icon with a face/? which I guess means it doesn't see any booting up software.

I have no discs with this machine so I'm not sure what to do next??

ant creative response would be most appreciated.
KR to all DD

Close Linuxgeek, but no banana... the Rev. 1 B+W originally came with 8.5.1.
The Rev. 2 on the other hand requires 8.6 . Both revisions support any version of OSX up to Tiger.

http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/macppc/

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SchmoBurger wrote:

Close Linuxgeek, but no banana... the Rev. 1 B+W originally came with 8.5.1.
The Rev. 2 on the other hand requires 8.6 . Both revisions support any version of OSX up to Tiger.

Thanks for the correction. I wasn't sure what B&W units came with originally.

My B&W was bought off ebay, so I didn't get the original disks for it.

It runs Panther quite nicely though.

What the crap kind of a post is that? Buzz off.

smurf wrote:

PowerMacMan wrote:

What the crap kind of a post is that? Buzz off.

Another myopic ignoramus.

Who's an ignoramus?
The guy who was already served by the entire crowd in another forum thread?
Well, you certainly are hard-pressed to learn what's best for you.
We don't always see eye to eye, but PowerMacMan's no slouch.
It would likely be much better for you to either take his advice or change your attitude.

If your presumptive disposition claims I picked on a G3, you need to cease your ignorance.

smurf wrote:

If your presumptive disposition claims I picked on a G3, you need to cease your ignorance.

Hi,
    I would PERFER a high end Mac. My husband is in the military and things are tight. Why don't you open up YOUR wallett and buy us a high end machine?You seem overly concerned about people using "these low end machines". I think it is GREAT that someone was generous to just give this person a computer.
 
   I DO understand where you are coming from to a point but the G3 will be plenty for the tasks many of us are doing. My 6 and 4 YO will be using mine with some Learning company software. We are not gamers. We do not need graphic intensive software.

OK smurf I'm going to get up on my soapbox. You most likely won't like what I have to say but here goes.

Regardless of how you might meant for your original post(s) to be interpreted by other people on this forum smurf, it came across as being negative about older hardware when there was no need for that type of comment to be made.

This is why you've been getting negative response to your posts.

I would love to have a New Mac Mini system, but since I am unemployed and the job market here in my area sucks right now I won't be able to afford to buy one anytime soon. According to you I'm misfortunate because I only have a measily G3 B&W system. Yet my G3 can do virtually everything I need or want to do with a Mac system, except that it just does it slower. So what, it still does it for me with decent speed. Yes it isn't as fast as my AMD Athlon XP 2400 system that runs windows XP but I don't care. I still enjoy using my G3 system regardless of it's speed.

Next time think before you open your mouth and stick your foot in it. That's what people are trying to tell you. You are entitled to your own opinion, but this doesn't mean you have to voice it on this forum in the fashion that you did.

I dare you to go make comments like this in the vintage forum. they would roast you alive and you most likely would get banned.

You're welcome to post on the MAF forum if you have something positive to say or if you have questions but we don't need your attitude by any means.

We're all here because of our love for Macintosh computers and all that is Apple, not to bring each other down with negativity.

OK I'll step down from my soapbox now.

I hope I haven't offended anyone by making my opinion on this subject known.

LGIT

linuxgeekintraining wrote:

OK smurf I'm going to get up on my soapbox. You most likely won't like what I have to say but here goes.

Regardless of how you might meant for your original post(s) to be interpreted by other people on this forum smurf, it came across as being negative about older hardware when there was no need for that type of comment to be made.

This is why you've been getting negative response to your posts.

I would love to have a New Mac Mini system, but since I am unemployed and the job market here in my area sucks right now I won't be able to afford to buy one anytime soon. According to you I'm misfortunate because I only have a measily G3 B&W system. Yet my G3 can do virtually everything I need or want to do with a Mac system, except that it just does it slower. So what, it still does it for me with decent speed. Yes it isn't as fast as my AMD Athlon XP 2400 system that runs windows XP but I don't care. I still enjoy using my G3 system regardless of it's speed.

Next time think before you open your mouth and stick your foot in it. That's what people are trying to tell you. You are entitled to your own opinion, but this doesn't mean you have to voice it on this forum in the fashion that you did.

I dare you to go make comments like this in the vintage forum. they would roast you alive and you most likely would get banned.

You're welcome to post on the MAF forum if you have something positive to say or if you have questions but we don't need your attitude by any means.

We're all here because of our love for Macintosh computers and all that is Apple, not to bring each other down with negativity.

OK I'll step down from my soapbox now.

I hope I haven't offended anyone by making my opinion on this subject known.

LGIT

Logic and cognitive writing skills are not your stalwart attributes.