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

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

2012-01-25 Thread Jesse Carroll
For Tray Loading iMacs, it might be better to go to Ubuntu 9.04 for powerpc. All CRT iMacs have slow USB 1.1 ports, so some ideas here won't work as they need USB2.0 I have an Early 2001 G3/600 SE Graphite running OS 10.4.11 1GB Ram 80GB 7200 rpm HDD. It has run Ubuntu 9.04 fine, as has my

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

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Brown
I've just bought a similar iMac, which is G3 Blueberry 350Mhz slot loading. I found out it would need an adaptor to install an Airport card and that nearly all sellers of these on eBay were in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China, so it would take some time to arrive. There's also the option of a USB

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

2012-01-24 Thread D. Fabel
See below. On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Paul Brown wrote: I've just bought a similar iMac, which is G3 Blueberry 350Mhz slot loading. I found out it would need an adaptor to install an Airport card and that nearly all sellers of these on eBay were in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China, so it

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

2012-01-24 Thread Christopher Satterfield
I have a G3/400 iMac, slot loading also, and it feels quite slow to me running OS 10.2, I just got Tiger disks so I'll run an upgrade sometime soon, whenever I feel like digging it out of the garage. Mine has a gig of ram, but then again I also never got to reinstall the OS when I got it so the

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

2012-01-15 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Peter Haller wrote: Oh and it run OS 8.6 although I could upgrade it to one of the OS X, but I dont know if it would help. Thanks, please reply. Definitely get it up to 10.2 at least, this will eliminate a host

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

2012-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Joshua Juran wrote: On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Peter Haller wrote: Oh and it run OS 8.6 although I could upgrade it to one of the OS X, but I dont know if it would help. Thanks, please reply. Definitely

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

2012-01-14 Thread Dennis Faulkner
I used to use mine with dial-up using earthlink, and then with Cox cable - mine played a lot of games it wasn't supposed too - I was told the extra RAM made up for a lot - Dennis San Diego On Jan 10, 2012, at 07:41 PM, Peter Haller peter.j.h.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have an

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

2012-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Peter Haller wrote: Oh and it run OS 8.6 although I could upgrade it to one of the OS X, but I dont know if it would help. Thanks, please reply. Definitely get it up to 10.2 at least, this will eliminate a host of weird issues that could cause this in 8.6 --