I am a PC person but may need to purchase a Mac to run a specific
application. I need to install an Adaptec 2903B PCI SCSI card and it needs
the following:
64MB RAM (128MB recommended)
Mac OS 8.6 or later

I am thinking of a G3. What is the different between the biege squared off
tower G3 and the blue and white G3? I assume the blue and white G3 is newer
and therefore "better." If this is in an FAQ somewhere, please point me to
it.

In article <reP1b.236095$o%2.108180[at]sccrnsc02>, "Alan Bell"
<alanbno2spam[at]blk.com> wrote:

> I am a PC person but may need to purchase a Mac to run a specific
> application. I need to install an Adaptec 2903B PCI SCSI card and it needs
> the following:
> 64MB RAM (128MB recommended)
> Mac OS 8.6 or later
>
> I am thinking of a G3. What is the different between the biege squared off
> tower G3 and the blue and white G3? I assume the blue and white G3 is newer
> and therefore "better." If this is in an FAQ somewhere, please point me to
> it.


try apple support look under specifications otherwise the beige box
had adb ports for keyboard and mouse; serial port for appletalk, printer
modems etc

the B&W had usb, no scsi ata drives


anyway if you are not going to use OSX G3 is too slow then run OS9.2.2

In article <reP1b.236095$o%2.108180[at]sccrnsc02>,
"Alan Bell" <alanbno2spam[at]blk.com> wrote:

> I am a PC person but may need to purchase a Mac to run a specific
> application. I need to install an Adaptec 2903B PCI SCSI card and it needs
> the following:
> 64MB RAM (128MB recommended)
> Mac OS 8.6 or later
>
> I am thinking of a G3. What is the different between the biege squared off
> tower G3 and the blue and white G3? I assume the blue and white G3 is newer
> and therefore "better." If this is in an FAQ somewhere, please point me to
> it.

Yes, the B&W G3 is newer and faster. Some even came with an Adaptec
2930U from the factory. Note that the only Adaptec SCSI card that is
cross-platform capable out of the box is the 2906. I've never heard of
the 2903B coming in a Mac-compatible version.

OTOH, if you just need any ol' SCSI, the Beige G3 has a SCSI-2 bus
built-in. It may do what you need with much less hassle.

You can get good links for both machines at lowendmac.com.

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