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

2015-02-23 Thread steveC
Along those lines, I got a little “second wind” from my Graphite DV by attaching a TV tuner to it and watching TV through it. Once Comcast went full-digital, that was no longer an option, so my unit is also looking or something else to do. It might make a decent terminal for another computer in

G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread SteveC
I have an iMac G3 Graphite DV edition 500MHz. I looked all over the web for G4 upgrade and found one place that advertised the upgrade at all, but when I triedto orderI got an email saying they discontinued the upgrde for my system. S. Does anyone know where I can get an upgrade? It's

RE: Solid state Harddisk on an iMac G4

2009-04-17 Thread SteveC
I have the original 10gb HD in my iMac G3 DV. I have a FireWire 250gb external drive that I boot from, and have a boot-time script that ejects the internal drive. It makes the machine whisper quiet because the external HD is silent and the internal one ceases to function. At first I considered