I agree, the original Imac's were so cool looking, I miss them --- the only reason I upgraded my bondi-blue and gave it to a friend was using Alladins Spring Cleaning, and accidentally wiping out my small hard drive - after that I upgraded to the G-t motorola chip model, which was replaced due to a bad logic board, I believe, under warranty for the newer Intel Imac.
Dennis Faulkner On Monday, January 26, 2009, at 10:12AM, "r_poetic" <radford.scha...@mms.gov> wrote: > >Good explanation, Jim, thanks. As for RAM, the cost is amazingly low >nowadays, and all one needs to open up is a little door. I have kept >my lime green iMac and put it in the playroom mainly because I can't >bear to part with such a nice looking computer. It's a cool-looking >DVD player. My experience is that the children have only slight >interest in the Classic games, unfortunately. Good OSX games for the >G3 include the Professor Fizzwizzle series. > >RS > >On Jan 25, 11:39 pm, Jim Scott <jesco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Kathy K wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I have an iMac G3, graphite 500 mhz, 128mb, and 30g harddrive. >> >> > It is currently running OS 10.3 only. >> >> > Is it possible to reinstall and add OS 9 back on it? Or classic? I >> > haven't messed with this iMac for awhile and have forgotten the ins >> > and outs of OS9/OSX installs. I do have two other old G3s, but we are >> > making some trades. Now we want to set this one up for my youngest to >> > play old OS 9 games on CD. It would be nice to leave OS X on there as >> > well, if possible. >> >> > And though the machine probably needs more ram, I don't plan to do >> > that. Not interested in opening it up or investing more $ in it. >> >> > Also, while I'm at it... at one time I had an ethernet/usb adapter on >> > this thing. The ethernet port was broken on it when I bought it (a >> > steal at $25 several years ago). I bought an adapter online that >> > worked great, but after awhile the adapter broke (poorly designed). I >> > since bought a different adapter... but could never get it to work. >> > Any other ideas out there for getting this G3 online without an >> > ethernet port? >> >> > Kathy K >> >> The best/easiest way to set it up for a new user is to boot from an OS >> 9.1 or preferably OS 9.2 CD, wipe the hard drive, initialize it for >> HFS Extended, and use Disk Utility to check the hard drive for bad >> sectors. lf Disk Utility finds bad sectors, replace the hard drive. If >> it doesn't, then you can install OS 9.x. Then run Software Update >> until there are no updates. Then set all your preferences in Control >> Panel. Finally, install all of the OS 9 programs and games. >> >> Once you've got OS 9 squared away, insert the OS X disk and install OS >> X. Run Software Update until there are no more to install. Then set >> your preferences. Finally, attempt to launch an OS 9 program. This >> will start Classic. Complete the dialogue and set your Classic >> preferences. Note that you can set Classic to launch when the computer >> starts up. If you do this, then it makes perfect sense to put favorite >> OS 9 aliases on the OS X desktop. That makes for a pretty seamless and >> almost transparent ability to use OS 9 and OS 10 programs at will >> without a bunch of switching back and forth and waiting for OS 9/ >> Classic to launch. I set a room full of G3e iMacs up this way at a >> local elementary school lab, and the lab instructor is quite happy >> with the kids' ability to surf via Firefox or Safari and use old OS 9 >> programs without any trouble or problems. >> >> As for getting it online without an ethernet port, you can use an >> original Airport card (with G3 iMac adapter), or buy another USB/ >> ethernet adapter. I'll leave other suggestions to the fine members on >> this list. >> >> Good luck and have fun! >> >> -- Jim- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
