i recommend 10.3 with 1.5 GB Ram or at least 756 Ram. Buy SSD Ram's from Ebay. 512 MB sticks x3 or 256 MB sticks x 3. Probably you have 128 MB x3. Forget them.
2010/1/7 Tim Renner <pdxb...@gmail.com> > Hi all, it's my first post. Hope you can help. > > I love enabling my mom to use her G4 with OS 9.2.2 and nineties era > Microsoft Word, but her old printer died and we scored an All-in-One printer > very cheap. When we got it home I realized, duh, there's no way in *heck* > that the new Lexmark 9575 is going to have a driver for OS9. Works great > with her windows machine though. I briefly flirted with using "Print Driver > Utility" or some such beast to generate a Chooser device to direct LPT > protocol print jobs toward a fixed IP address, but wasn't able to get it to > work. Is this a viable tactic? Is there another solution? > > Thanks for your brilliant and knowledgeable responses! > Tim > > P.S. Upgrading to OSX is one possibility, but way outside the comfort zone > of her writing workflow. It would probably be a Panther system, according to > my research about how far to go with the hardware: G4 Sawtooth, 350MHz CPU / > AGP / 320 MB RAM. > -- > ɯoɔ˙lıɐ�...@ssɐqxpd > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > -- Baha Ata
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