How The Hell Can I Get Outdated Software?, ...software if i wanna buy a 7300/200 Options

[dr. schoft]

i dont have much money. and to do simple recording/sequence (1trackat a time, maye 2 but i doubt it) tasks. i wont be needing a G-something, right? im a guitarman and i just want to make some songs with midi drummachine, work out structures etc...

theres a company here in belgium that recycles macs and they sell a full equipped 7300/200 for 200euros. i wana buy that thing it looks very interesting for the price(for the research i have done on macs)

the only problem left is SOFTWARE, how do i get older versions of whatever cubase, cakewalk...

another thing: yes i wanna do those things on a computer. i worked with cakewalk pro audio 9 before on this computer (which is a pc that runs on windows and isnt mine) and i like that better than working on the stupid drummachine (alesis) on which i tend to lose my patience all the time. keep in mind that i dont have my own computer yet so im gonna use it for some other minimalistic things

you think id be allright for 400-500 euros?

any suggestions Highly Appreciated

and im sorry if theres been someone else before with a similar question. i looked for a bit and it looks like the most have a g3 or more. so before i got crazy i made my own thread

[lee_story]

I've seen very few G3 upgrade problems on "old world" Macs...and the 7300 is being used by Other World Computing (OWC) as their benchmark machine for G3 and G4 upgrades up to 800MHz.

I'm using an old PowerMac 8500 for my music machine, upgraded with a Sonnet 450MHz G4 processor card (cost $175 US on ebay), a simple 2-port USB card and M-Audio MIDI interface, Griffin iMic, internal 9G and 2G SCSI disks, and an external 18G SCSI disk (which I may move inboard eventually). I'm running OSX 10.2.4, installed with the Sonnet Technologies helper PCI X Install (tried XPostFacto, and it also works fine), and the PowerLogix Cache Control X to turn on the L2 cache. (Turning it on is essential; OWC's L2CacheControl by R.Rempel also works.)

It's absolutely rock solid. I'm using Metro6, Peak DV, SparkME, and Finale 2003 in Classic mode (have ordered 2004). I plan to upgrade my old and much-loved MOTU Performer 6 to DP4 soon.

As far as I can see, there's very little reason not to use an "Old World" Mac unless you need a greater-than-800MHz processor or greater-than-50M bus speed. --L