I'm a brand new user. I live in Japan.
Last week I came a across a used computer parts shop near my home and spotted a mint condition MDD DP 1.25Ghz FW 400 G4 on a back shelf. I was incredibly surprised ( utter disbelief ) when the proprietor said ¥500 )( US$ 4.96 ) ( AU$6.06 ) !
It was spotless inside and had a 64mb ATI 9000 Pro installed. Also had 4 IDE HD's full of Japanese porn. One HD was 116 Gig the rest around 80Gig.
I managed to get hold of two PC 2700 RAM modules and have upped the memory to 1.5 gig.
I have OS 9.22 and OS X 10.5.8 running on a nice 23" LCD monitor.
I had a spare 4 port USB card so that went in too without issue.
Also added a Bluetooth USB module which works ( in Leopard so far ).
I'm particularly happy because I have an English school here in Japan and make my own textbooks & lessons using a DTP program called "Pagestream "
http://www.pagestream.org/. This program started out on the Amiga and moved to Mac & Linux but the author seemed to lose it when is came to print output in OS X - Pagestream prints perfectly from OS 9.2.2. But I of course moved from G4 Macs to G5 and Intel so it was a nasty surprise to find that in OS X Pagestream just would not print ot any work - in fact it was the ONLY program out of the hundred's on my Mac Pro that wouldn't print - seems the author missed out on the Apple OSX Printing SDK. So for the past 8 or so years I've had to export any lesson work as PDF's and then print.
Having stated the above about Pagestream I will say that it is the most intuitive and easy to use DTP that I have ever come across
Thank God I saved images of my old OS 9.2.2 HDs.
I'm also really happy to have joined macos9 lives, seems there's a wealth of information here.
Cheers