Interesting Idea

I've come into the possession of an iMac Blueberry, which is a 450MHz G3 with 192MB of PC-100 ram (YAY!). I stuffed a 120GB disk in it (it had none, having been declared 'dead' by the school it came from), successfully ejected the disk in the DVD drive, which involved disassembling the computer, as the disk was too thick for the slot and kept binding. Then I installed Linux on it (Mac OS X on a 450MHz machine with 192MB ram? Really?)

After messing with it for a bit, I got it to work as a client to my other machine (read my other posts for an idea as to why I'd try to do that). The idea is to create a machine for homework that isn't expensive because I'm tired of spending hundreds of dollars fixing computers destroyed by the kids. Since I've got that other machine just sitting there, as I have to go to a real job these days, it makes sense to employ it as an application server.

I'm so close, too. If the audio can be made to work (my sysadmin friend is working on it) then I can use it for almost all uses the kids put a computer to. Unfortunately, setting up audio in is somewhat harder, and necessary for some of the apps. I guess I'll need to run a Mac for that. Maybe I'll just set up the multimedia machine for that.