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: G3 Blueberry --- was: Help! What to do with iMac Bondi G3 Tray Loading 233mhx cpu 256 mb ram

2012-02-13 Thread David Parks
Strait debian works better as they have a port already and Ubuntu will be a little bloated for that model. I have three also which were my kids which ran OS 9 when they were smaller. Instead of trying to force OS X on there I reused them in my basement data center. They make great little linux