That's true. The fact that MiniMac has an industry standard interface should
give it a longer life.
Indeed. It's worked for other Macs.
Without doubt it will do. Unfortunately, however, not all USB peripheral manufacturers are wise enough to make Mac compatible peripherals, although the situation has improved a lot since I first got a Mac in 2000.
Only if the peripheral is specialized, like USB modems, USB ethernet cards,
USB KVM and video cameras with specialized interface software. Storage
devices/input devices are all standard and require generic drivers.
Printers are also an issue. It seems that Epson is the only major printer
company producing Mac printers?
Nope, HP, Lexmark, Canon and many other makers of USB printer hardware supply Mac drivers. Failing that a lot can be driven via CUPS, which is the Open Source print manager that OS X uses (the Print Setup stuff is just an Aqua front end). I mean I have driven a HP DeskWriter 520c over a network via a 68k Mac using the AppleTalk Bridge extension in OS 7.1 - from OS X 10.3. It's amazing really how much you CAN do. Also if you have a Windows box you can print to Any Windows printer through SMB sharing from Mac OS X now. I use that to print to my Parallel only HP Laserjet.
A way around this issue of hardware support is Open Source. A lot of hardware
is supported on Linux because of Open Source. Wish it were the same on the
Mac.
OS X is based on BSD roots, and Linux stuff is easily portable. There has already been a big increase in thrid party support packages since OS X cam about, including stuff for PC only Webcams, Scanners and other oddities.
The LC series machines are far from dead, trust me :o)
I agree, I have one. I find it useless without a printer and old printers with
a good supply of printer ink are hard to come by. Know of anywhere I can get
an old Apple StyleWriter with ink supply? So that I can start my own desktop
publishing revolution?
One word for you. Network. Any work I do in a 68k is LAN'd to my iMac if it needs printing or any high-power manipulation. 68ks are not dead but in this day and age they have their limits. FWIW I have found that HP Deskwriters are 2-a-penny at dumps and junk stores and you can still get re-manufactured or pattern part ink cartridges for them at most good retailers.
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