So, planning on participating in #MARCHintosh this year -- broke my old #PowerMac #G3 out of storage, and it's sitting on my desk... But the only monitor I can find with a VGA socket doesn't have a power adapter... So that's the last missing piece...

The plan for this year is to back up the internal IDE drives to a CF->IDE adapter, then image the disks and throw them onto my backup server (ZFS zraid3!) for safekeeping. I have a 128GB CF card, but only 70GB of drives... So with the rest, I'll try and mirror some archives from MacintoshGarden, etc.

Picked up G3 era 'junk' USB floppy drives from Japan because they were cheap and look awesome.

And they actually work.. and way better than new ones which can only mount once in a session. So far only tried on Linux but mounts every time no problem.

#floppy #g3 #retrocomputing #retroconsumerism