i regretted this really badly afterwards tho.. and thats what led me to go out and get a g4 450mhz second hand just about 1 year ago.
To have the
blue and white G3 with a G4 ZIF running should be "Zero Insertion Force".
I fall in love with the G3 B&W design back in '99, and that started my Compulsive Vintage Computers Hoarding disease.
(I have 3 PowerMacs and 4 PCs, 1 Commodore C-128, 1 Philips MSX-2, and 1 Sinclair ZX-Spectrum128k )
Back to topic,
The blue is incredible ... Close to it the DigitalAudio seem a cheaper computer... I cant explain better...
The shame is the bad memory controller and bad IDE controller on rev.1 boards. I thought sometimes to buy a G4-pci motherboard for it just to keep the blue box, maybe even a Sawtooth board can work in a B&W box with minor mods.
But, come-on, it is just a FUC**ING firmware!, why is so hard?
Just to clear, all firmware updates from sonnet/daystar/etc are supposed to work with ANY Rom version...And I tested sonnet and daystar files for G4 ZIF cards for G3s B&W... Nada.