The saga continues. I've just bought a G4/400 with 512mB memory, 30 Gb hard drive, DVD reader and OS X 10.4 from the 'bay for the grand total of £2.20 - which wasn't that bad. Master plan is to fill it up with surplus PC drives, a DVD burner and possibly, when I can find one at a reasonable price, a Sonnet processor board.
It seems to work. However my disfunctional cat managed to knock a cup of coffee over my only mac keyboard the other night and now this is equally disfunctional, not working on some keys and generating the occasional keystroke of its own.
Do I need a replacement Mac Keyboard or will a USB PC keyboard work? I'd try it but all my PC keyboards are min-din. I realise it won't have an Apple key but I've never needed it yet.