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The 350 MHz Rev. A blue and white Power Macintosh G3 is picky about its ATA configuration.

TODO: Pull from Apple System Profiler

The fan may or may not rattle loudly.
Because this is a Rev. A model, "newer" ATA drives exhibit data corruption. Even the stock 6 GB drive from a tray-loading iMac G3 is "too new".
Open Firmware can't boot from hard disks connected to the CD-ROM drive and Zip drive's ATA cable, even though it can boot from CD-ROM drives on that cable just fine.

2020-07-06: The computer arrives at my parents' place from an eBay seller. One handle on the back bottom is broken. The hard disk is dead.
2020-07-06: ⚠️ A bit of plastic from the clock battery holder is chipped away when removing the clock battery.
2020-07-06: Attempts at using different hard disks I have on hand fail due to the data corruption issue.
2020-07-10: 📈 The RAM the computer came with is replaced with four 256 MiB sticks (256 -> 1024).
2020-07-17: 📈 I replace the dead hard disk with a period-correct 13.6 GB Quantum Fireball. No data corruption is observed.

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 == History ==
-* The computer arrives at my parents' place from an eBay seller. One handle on the back bottom is broken. The hard disk is dead.
+* 2020-07-06: The computer arrives at my parents' place from an eBay seller. One handle on the back bottom is broken. The hard disk is dead.
-* {{Damage|A bit of plastic from the clock battery holder is damaged when removing the clock battery.}}
+* 2020-07-06: {{Damage|A bit of plastic from the clock battery holder is chipped away when removing the clock battery.}}
-* Attempts at using different hard disks I have on hand fail due to the data corruption issue.
+* 2020-07-06: Attempts at using different hard disks I have on hand fail due to the data corruption issue.
-* {{Upgrade|I replace the dead hard disk with a period-correct 13.6 GB Quantum Fireball.}} No data corruption is observed.
+* 2020-07-10: {{Upgrade|The RAM the computer came with is replaced with four 256 MiB sticks (256 -> 1024).}}
-* {{Upgrade|The RAM the computer came with is replaced with four 256 MiB sticks (256 -> 1024).}}
+* 2020-07-17: {{Upgrade|I replace the dead hard disk with a period-correct 13.6 GB Quantum Fireball.}} No data corruption is observed.
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