Will iSight work with 500mhz PIsmo Powerbook

Hey - I am looking to set up iSight on my son's 700 mhz G4 eMac and my Powerbook G3 500mhz. Question is - will it work?

This has now become two questions
1) Can an external iSight work on a G3/500mghz ?
2) Can a USB camera do the same ?
The answer to both is http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/
This was originally designed to do these jobs as separate entities. Allow external iSights to work on sub Spec Macs (those below G3/600) AND to allow USB cameras to work on the then Spec machines.
However experimentation has taught us that it will do both together - Allow a USB cam on a slower than spec mac.
The slowest ever has been a G3/400 although this was fairly blocky.
The site above has a Camera list page as well.
You Will not get pics as seen in adverts of video stream elsewhere here at Apple.com
You will be successful with some sort of possibly acceptable video stream pic.
10:28 PM Monday; December 4, 2006

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