Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-05-26 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 24/05/15 01.25, "Colin Yarwood" ha scritto: > If its not too late - tell your contact to buy a flash memory card of > however many Gbs they need and put it in a USB Card reader plugged into the > iMac. The speed and silence is brilliant and the costs are very reasonable! Beware, flash d

Re: 2001 iMac. Is this machine still useful?

2015-05-26 Thread Julia Brinckloe
They will always do what they were originally designed to do. And that was enough for us then. Have we changed all that much? These vintage iMacs are little gems. I cringe when I read dismissive comments about them. But then--I am a collector. And maybe that is where they belong--in a collection.

2001 iMac. Is this machine still useful?

2015-05-26 Thread David Parks
In my humble opinion you are going to spend a lot of time and energy playing with that SNOW Mac and not get a reasonable return on your investment. I have 3 in my basement that were my kids when they were little. OS9 served them well even though it was dated then. I installed Linux on one and that

Re: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015?

2015-05-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On May 26, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Neil Hughes wrote: > > Well, the bad news is that it looks like in my case it's the PAV board, which > seems to be the cause of many a G3 iMac's demise. Since I'm not comfortable > dealing with high voltages, and this machine is getting a bit too slow, I > suspe

Re: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015?

2015-05-26 Thread Neil Hughes
On 05/04/2015 04:21 PM, Colin Yarwood wrote: Neil, I just bought a Flower Power G3 iMac in nice nick to take the place of an old blue iMac G3 older which stopped for no apparent treason years ago and was put into store. I pulled it out after getting a 475 and PB 1400 up and running but It just