Re: RAM

2009-08-22 Thread Susan Platter
Where do you get the emoticons, Sam? Regards Susan On 21 Aug 2009, at 21:17, Cyrus Griffin wrote: I would look around online, or even the LEM swap, probably get better results there for buying old RAM at good prices. -Elliott On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Sam Stone wrote: OK

Re: G3 Slot Loading Imac

2009-08-22 Thread Jasiu
Ok, I tried the paper clip thingy without success. I went into open firmware and typed eject cd but it said it couldn't do it. I tried holding down the mouse button and rebooting, also without success. Another strange thing is when you start up the little OS9 happy mac shows up and then it

Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-22 Thread Jasiu
I have a 233MHZ G3 Imac running OS 9.2. I wanted to put OS X on it but my OS X disc is a DVD. I don't think this Imac will acknowledge a new DVD player. Can I get OS X on CD? Can I download it from the internet somewhere? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: G3 Slot Loading Imac

2009-08-22 Thread Cyrus Griffin
Wow that seems like quite the dilemma... You can get it apart fairly easy, you just have to pop out the video port cover (whether it has video or not, just slip a flathead screwdriver into the slot of the panel near the back) then undo two screws under that panel, and two near the sockets

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-22 Thread Cyrus Griffin
It should read DVD's, at one point I put a slot-loading DVD drive in it from my 2004 iBook; it looked strange, but it worked fine, I'm pretty sure this is how I installed 10.4 onto it. (From the DVD) (Using Xpost Facto, that is) 10.0 through 10.2 were only released on CD, 10.3 was released

Re: G3 Slot Loading Imac

2009-08-22 Thread Clark Martin
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 08:38 -0700, Cyrus Griffin wrote: Wow that seems like quite the dilemma... You can get it apart fairly easy, you just have to pop out the video port cover (whether it has video or not, just slip a flathead screwdriver into the slot of the panel near the back) then

Re: G3 Slot Loading Imac

2009-08-22 Thread williamd
On 22 Aug, 2009, at 09.56, Jasiu wrote: Ok, I tried the paper clip thingy without success. I went into open firmware and typed eject cd but it said it couldn't do it. I tried holding down the mouse button and rebooting, also without success. Another strange thing is when you start up the