Re: Mac Retro Anyone?

2009-10-02 Thread Nathan Templeton
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:31 AM, spiceyweasel spiceywea...@yahoo.com mailto:spiceywea...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't know about the rest of you, but I find my old trusty G4 tower and green, see-through iMac G3 to be more aesthetically pleasing than

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, Good for her. That is a lovely little machine and worth some trouble to get working. I am thrilled with my new(to me) G3 notebook. The next 2 machines I want are the machine your mother-in-law has and a G5 tower. Since you have a new hard drive, try an experiment. Install Tiger on

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Taner Sezer
hi, as an option, ide disks have limit capacity jumppers on. you can try to put a jumper on and then try if disk utility can format the drive with install 9 drivers option. afaik, old iMacs had the same thing with disks greater than 128 GB's. On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Tom wrote:

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the 10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am not given any option to install any OS 9

Re: Mac Retro Anyone?

2009-10-02 Thread Nestamicky
On 10/2/09 12:36 AM, Nathan Templeton wrote: I hate to say it but leave Mac OS behind. Right now I have ubuntu 8.04 installed, with FluxBox as a WM.. It's not going to win any speed contests against a modern day mac, though even with 4 virtual desktops it's quite usable and much more

Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Ted Treen wrote: From: Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, 2 October, 2009 3:41:51 PM Subject: Camera Driver help Just got a new digital camera (Fuji FinePix A220) and it is really messing with my work flow and I'm

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread beecaretaker
On Oct 2, 5:31 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to install the OS 9 drivers, is not offered by the Disk Utility that is on the Tiger Installer. So I dug around in my old disc collection and found a 10.1 installer disk, but discovered on starting up with it

Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: I have an old Lacie that does not see the card at all. The card in the camera is a SDHC 8GB card. My old 2GB standard card from the Nikon shows up using the reader I have, but I can not see all the files on it. Maybe a more modern reader

Re: PPC Genealogy Software

2009-10-02 Thread Michael McMurtrey
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Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Clark Martin
Len Gerstel wrote: Just got a new digital camera (Fuji FinePix A220) and it is really messing with my work flow and I'm hoping for some help. Running 10.4.11 on a DA. Both of my older cameras (the Nikon I just replaced and a floppy disk/ memory stick based Sony Mavica) would show up

Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Maybe a more modern reader will help. I will keep an eye out. Instead, you'll save a LOT of time if you keep an eye out for a USB 2.0 PCI card instead of using that 12 Mbps USB 1.1 internal USB port. The lack of USB 2.0 could possibly be the

Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Maybe a more modern reader will help. I will keep an eye out. Instead, you'll save a LOT of time if you keep an eye out for a USB 2.0 PCI card instead of using that 12 Mbps USB 1.1 internal

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote: Does anyone on this list know how to open  a sit.torrent download? I am using an iMac power PC G4 with OSX 10.4.11. Thanks Wm. .sit files are commonly opened with Stuffit Expander. Should be a free download for that . --

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread Gus
I am wondering if you don't mean bit torrent?? I know vuze makes a client that is fairly stable under ox X 10.4. If you do mean the old .sit files go to version tracker and look up stuffit expander. I believe they have a free utility for unstuffing those files. Good Luck!! On Oct 1, 8:39 pm,

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Gus gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I am wondering if you don't mean bit torrent?? I know vuze makes a client that is fairly stable under ox X 10.4. If you do mean the old .sit files go to version tracker and look up stuffit expander. I believe they have a free

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Tom
SUCCESS! Thanks very much Ralph, Taner, Kris, and Ben. It's very good of you all to take the time to help me out here. Ralph, you're right, the more I fool around with this little Mac the more fond I'm getting of the thing. I like the way the monitor swivels around so smoothly into any position

Re: PPC Geneaology software - what's best?

2009-10-02 Thread Al Poulin
On Oct 1, 10:08 am, Michael Emery mem...@texas.net wrote: On Sep 30, 1:31 pm, Dan Usmar usma...@gmail.com wrote:     I've heard good things about Reunion... Here's another such report, Dan. I've been using Reunion since version 2 when it was based on HyperCard, and now I'm using the latest

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread McGrude
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 1, 8:39 pm, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote: Does anyone on this list know how to open  a sit.torrent download? I am using an iMac power PC G4 with OSX 10.4.11. Thanks Wm.

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Al Poulin
On Oct 2, 7:19 pm, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: NOW, I've got one last question for anybody who might have an answer: We are in the process of putting all the lady's data back on the drive, from a backup that was made onto an external drive when the old internal drive began to go flakey. She

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread Wm. Arnold
Hi Wallace, Thanks for your response, I got what I wanted. This is a neat list. Regards Wm. --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: opening a sit.torrent download To:

Re: opening a sit.torrent download

2009-10-02 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:57 PM, McGrude mcgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 1, 8:39 pm, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote: Does anyone on this list know how to open a sit.torrent download? I am using