Will A G3 Powerbook Work For Recording?, I'm running MacOs X Options

[tross]

Will a G3 Powerbook work for recording? Has anybody had any luck?

[ruczaj]

Dangt wrote:
"I was using Protools LE, Reason and Live in OS 9. worked well, but
I wouldnt recommend using it for recording software in OSX. The newer operating systems will slow it down."

I strongly agree with dangt. I've been using Pismo few years ago (Reason 2.5). Under OS 9.2 worked fine; under any X went a bit slow. Remeber, that X systems needs a lot of hard disk space to keep scratch disc. So get used to view of spinning beachball of death. System 9.2 is very stable and fast for older Macs.
Maybe You will find interesting that page:
http://os9forever.com/

But there is other problem with Pismo and Reason. You will be not able to work out huge songs. In my case, few instruments plus correction tracks overloaded CPU quite fast (note, that Reason has CPU load indictaor).

"My G3 is 400mhz running OSX."

Doesn't Your machine have a Os 9.2 in Classic mode?
Try to use system preferences to switch to 9.2 ( System Preferences/ Startup Disc/ select Mac OS 9.2.2 ), then restart.Then Your Pismo will start up in Os 9.2. And then do not change Startup Disk back to System X.
Maybe it will do.

let us know how did You handle that
cheers