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
shows the switch light which only goes out
On May 4, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Colin Yarwood colin.yarw...@gmail.com 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 spoke to a friend who suggested I
I've got two Flower Power iMac's and have replaced both sets of speakers.
It's an easy fix--the speakers can be had online. Here's a tested used set:
http://www.thebookyard.com/product.php?cPath=34_35products_id=412
It's only a matter of a few screws to take off the bottom portion of the
unit,
ROFL! truly making it a lampshade iMac. That’s clever.
On May 4, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Ravine, Devon drav...@nwfdailynews.com wrote:
Repurposed as a lamp
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OS-X ppc is long dead.
No matter what machine your are using.
ANYTHING requiring FLASH is unuseable.
Get an Intel Mac.
Or a PC laptop for Linux.
J.C.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Neil Hughes neil.hugh...@tesco.net
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On 02/23/15 20:12, Neil Hughes wrote:
Unfortunately, the CRT
Hi Mark,
I might be wrong, but my understanding is that the lines are more of a
driver issue than a GPU issue. I have the same issue. I plan on trying
mintppc and hope the lines are taken care of.
Le 2015-03-25 9:36 PM, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com a écrit :
I'm currently using an iMac
I'll take a look at it, maybe take a picture to further elaborate.
I'm also working on an iMac G5 project, replacing the screen, for the most
part. With $30, I was able to get myself a replacement logic board, LCD,
and inverter board off of gainsaver. No single combination has resulted in
any
I'm currently using an iMac G4 700 MHz as a clock server. It's hooked up to
an external monitor, running fliqlo as a screensaver, with the monitor on
constantly. I'm not sure if it's the fact I'm using it solely for this, or
it's age, however, the screen is starting to show a few multicolored
On 02/23/15 20:12, Neil Hughes wrote:
Unfortunately, the CRT has got to the stage where it takes 1 hour to
stop flickering, so I have to either plug in another monitor (wish I
could switch off the internal monitor when I do this, rather than just
mirror) or get on with some other jobs while I
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
Not that I've ever done it, but have you looked at SETI@home or Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)?
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
There are other BOINC projects that still run on PPC OS X, but the
list is
On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:19 PM, john kirby kirb...@gmail.com wrote:
Bruce,
thanks for the recommendation of VueScan. Works like a charm on my mavericks
machine. Of course now I have to find a purpose for my former scan station...
;-)
Glad it’s working. It’s a great piece of software; I
I'll 2nd Bruce's advice: I was caught in the old-scanner, new-OS, and was
faced with the choice of either buying a new scanner or...
VueScan saved the day: it is well written, has great support (via email,
within 24 hours, many times much less), frequent updates, and is very
flexible in its
On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Neil Hughes neil.hugh...@tesco.net wrote:
It's the only Mac that will work with my 10-year-old flatbed scanner, after
HP couldn't be bothered to update the drivers post-Tiger.
Have you tried VueScan? I’ve had good luck with a bunch of older scanners with
it;
On 02/24/15 15:28, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Neil Hughes neil.hugh...@tesco.net wrote:
It's the only Mac that will work with my 10-year-old flatbed scanner, after HP
couldn't be bothered to update the drivers post-Tiger.
Have you tried VueScan? I’ve had good luck
I make a tabloid newspaper with a Graphite G4 733 mhz (with old versions of
Quark and Photoshop), and I have a Graphite G3 iMac 600 mhz loaded with
MP3s that's an excellent jukebox and CD burner.
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Strategic Conquest!!
On Feb 24, 2015 4:55 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
Robert,
Have you looked at SETI@home or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
(SETI)?
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
The thing is that they are down at the moment for maintenance.
Al Poulin
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Bruce,
thanks for the recommendation of VueScan. Works like a charm on my
mavericks machine. Of course now I have to find a purpose for my former
scan station... ;-)
K
Bruce Johnson mailto:john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
February 24, 2015 at 10:28 AM
Have you tried VueScan? I’ve had good luck
Robert,
Have you looked at SETI@home or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
(SETI)?
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
The thing is that they are down at the moment for maintenance.
Al Poulin
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Personally, i collect them. If you truly don't have any use for the Computer
itself then I would recommend making a MacQuarium out of it.
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:34:33 -0800
From: sen...@gmail.com
To: imaclist@googlegroups.com
Subject: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015?
I've got a
The snow is a little beauty. I would load a bunch of favorite photos and
use it as an art piece---run slideshows...a great piece for any room.
If you want to sell it, I want to buy it. But don't sell it.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Robert Alpizar sen...@gmail.com wrote:
I've got a 2001
Hi Robert,
The mac hardware usually includes decent sound speakers.
I have a project to turn one of these macs into an internet music box for
my son, by building a linux system from scratch.
I have had some success using Debian but the internet part was a bit
slowish.
Good luck with your
Dropbox will run on tiger, for whatever that's worth. Maybe use it as a media
server (with a bunch of external drives?) that you'd also have access to over
the interwebs.
Dedicated MAME machine?
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Mike Linnett
07515877812
http://notacello.net
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Max LeBlanc
for other ideas…
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The snow is a little beauty. I would load a bunch
I use mine for a scanning station. I have a pretty nice, oversize
scanner for which official mac support died a while ago.
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MAME is a great idea.
BTW, I tried using an imac as a kid-friendly browsing machine. Parent
controlled browser. DNS set up to avoid suspect sites.
Still didn't work as Flash wouldn't run fast enough and most kid-centric
sites have Flash to some degree.
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Snow 600MHz (bought in 2002) running Tiger:
1. Retrospect 6, to backup some of the other computers on the network;
2. It's the only Mac that will work with my 10-year-old flatbed scanner,
after HP couldn't be bothered to update the drivers post-Tiger.
3. Very slow web browsing (TenFourFox)
Scanning station. I have a nice oversize scanner that Mac OS doesn't
officially support now. Older versions do.
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The snow is a little beauty. I would load a bunch of favorite photos and use
it as an art piece---run slideshows...a great piece for any room
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