Digital BW, The Print

Roger L Sopher writes:
 > I found a "Beige" G3 mac in good shape at a great price and a "Blue and
 > White" at a not as good a price. Question, are either  (or both) of these
 > enough machine to run either of the two rips that have been given pretty
 > high praise on this forum?
 > 
 > I  have about decided a linux box/freeBSD box to run QuadTone is more
 > trouble than it is worth, particularly the lack of a friendly interface in
 > linux. If  either of the G3's are practical then they are within my price
 > range where G4's are still a little dear.

I managed to install OS X onto a low-end beige G3, but it was
extremely frustrating until I discovered the magic trick.  It turns
out that I needed to update the firmware on the machine's scsi
controller, and once I did that it all went very simply.  It was only
by dumb luck that I googled across a mostly japanese article about the
fix and was able to pick out enough english/geek words to make an
educated guess.

I can't speak to whether it has enough horsepower or not, but it
certainly *should*.  You might just have to be a bit more patient.

g.