Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread joshuallen
I'm very familiar with OpenOffice, but it's not compatible with 10.1. I had no idea what version, exactly, of iMac I had b/c I bought it second hand from a guy who got it from his father in law and put it away in a box. I don't think it has a DVD drive, so there's a limit to the upgrades I can do.

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
I have an early G3 iMac, Bondi or Blueberry, I'm not sure... slot-loading 4Gb HD 256Mb RAM 350MHz Had OS 9.1 if I remember correctly (got it secondhand about 5-6 years ago) which I upped to 9.2.2 at first, and then 2 years ago loaded Panther (OSX 10.3.9). Also have the same-era G3 Clamshell

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Ikea shelves... I store my unused old Macs on shelves http://www.ikea.com/us/en/ Gerald Uhlan wrote: Huh? What does that mean, Ikea'd? On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com wrote: but still have the G3s Ikea'd in plain view -- You received this

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Gerald Uhlan
Oh. Never heard of Ikea being used as a verb to mean shelve. Thanks for the clarification. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com wrote: Ikea shelves... I store my unused old Macs on shelves http://www.ikea.com/us/en/ Gerald Uhlan wrote: Huh?  What does that

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Anything goes these days, eh... I'm into writing ad-type stuff... I just coined that... you can use it haha Gerald Uhlan wrote: Oh. Never heard of Ikea being used as a verb to mean shelve. Thanks for the clarification. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Absolutely... I still have every Mac I've ever bought... all in plain view... since 1996 I have 12, including a Mac Classic which I got for $10 and never used it. It currently sits on a top shelf keeping an eye on me haha Jason Trunzo wrote: I pictured them set out on coffee tables or desks

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Even the boxes are too cool to throw away... I can't understand why people throw those out... I still have my long-dead AppleVision 1710 display in its original box (in a closet since I'm cramped here) Jason Trunzo wrote: I pictured them set out on coffee tables or desks but not used at all

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Gerald Uhlan
Because they don't have the room to store them. I sure don't. Just like I don't have any place to store or display my old Macs. (I even had an original 68K Macintosh!) So, they all go to the thrift store. Only old one I've kept is my Snow G3, as it is still serviceable, but having a devil of a

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-21 Thread Al Poulin
On Apr 20, 5:25 pm, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: My wife has a 2006 17 Intel iMac, which came with, and still has, Tiger (with all the updates). Recently she came across a program that required at least Leopard. So I'm thinking of upgrading her. Can I go from Tiger to Snow Leopard

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Ashgrove
On Apr 21, 12:20 am, joshuallen joshuallen.wri...@gmail.com wrote: It's a slot loader with a 20GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM. I can't say if it's a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. It's the model that has the door on the back to accept an airport card or to swap out the RAM, and 2 firewire ports.

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 4/20/10 9:20 PM, joshuallen wrote: It's a slot loader with a 20GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM. I can't say if it's a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. It's the model that has the door on the back to accept an airport card or to swap out the RAM, and 2 firewire ports. I suspect that the HD and RAM

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 4/21/10 5:48 AM, Bill Chapman wrote: I have an early G3 iMac, Bondi or Blueberry, I'm not sure... slot-loading 4Gb HD 256Mb RAM 350MHz Had OS 9.1 if I remember correctly (got it secondhand about 5-6 years ago) which I upped to 9.2.2 at first, and then 2 years ago loaded Panther (OSX 10.3.9).

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Elliott Price
If the WD 500Gb is a full size IDE HD, (and not a laptop drive, or SATA,) then yes. It's really easy to swap drives in the G4 towers. Just make sure the cable settings are correct (Master/Slave). -Elliott On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.comwrote: It has a

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Ashgrove
On Apr 21, 2:48 pm, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: There were no Bondi slot loaders anyways; Only the very first G3 iMac (tray loader) was Bondi. If it's a slot-loader, it's Blueberry. Bondi was darker, and more green-blue. I have never been able to get those darned colors right.

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread joshuallen
It's a 400Mhz. According to what I could dig up, it can handle up to 1GB of RAM. If you're considering a dual boot, look at installing fink or macports to run linux programs instead. I eventually got a version of Debian to run on a G3 imac, but they usually boot to a black screen, and you

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Thanks for the important info Elliott Just hooked up the G3 iMac. It has 128Mb RAM 350MHz I have a 5.86Gb Panther partition and a 500Mb Classic partition I still maintain that the Blueberry iMac should be purple, like actual blueberries This one is turquoise... my Clamshell G3 is way darker

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Ashgrove
On Apr 21, 9:50 am, joshuallen joshuallen.wri...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to give it a try after work tonight, and give fink and abiword a try. I used Abiword for my PC for a while, but I remember preferring OpenOffice, but I'll take whatever works. NeoOffice requires paying, and I'm trying

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
Until someone shows up with an actual Blueberry model and puts it side-by-side, I'm calling this one Bondi... it's a light turquoise, and who the hell as ever seen turquoise (green/blue) blueberries anyway...THEY'RE PURPLE Ashgrove wrote: I have never been able to get those darned colors

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Chapman
You know how to keep boxes? Fold 'em haha... or even just get out the box cutter and keep the front Yeah, my first Mac was the Quadra 610 68000/25Mhz/68Mb RAM... the so-called 'pizza box'. It's still here, under the tv, with my 7200 and 7600 Gerald Uhlan wrote: Because they don't have the

What else to do with your old machines

2010-04-21 Thread William Spencer
In case you missed this site... http://macuddersidepark.4-you.ca/ *** Bill Spencer in Maryland IMac Core Duo 2.4 ghz/2 g RAM/Snow Leopard IMac Core Duo 1.83 ghz/1 g RAM/Snow Leopard -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using

old puters

2010-04-21 Thread Dave
I'm getting out of the old Apple business. I have an iMac 400 cd/dvd, an iMc 600 cd and a eMac 750 cd.dvd. They all work fine. The first two are Panther 10.3.9; the eMac is Tiger 10.5 The only issue is that the eMac doesn't seem to think that there is anything on its disk, even though it operates

Re: What else to do with your old machines

2010-04-21 Thread Ashgrove
On Apr 21, 9:11 pm, William Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: In case you missed this site... http://macuddersidepark.4-you.ca/ Oh... It breaks my heart... Felix -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The

Re: What else to do with your old machines

2010-04-21 Thread Earle Jones
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