Recent content by sixsevenco

Ok! We're off to the races!  We have a contender with a clean, full computing experience.  I like it!

Overview: A common goal we all share on this site is to preserve older, vintage Macs.  In concert with that goal, I would like to explore how a 13 year old iMac could be genuinely useful today.  Award: None! This is just for fun. :) I am not sure what to expect in terms of responses to this...

It looks like I'm not the only person with this idea.  I was hoping I could use my ADTPro cable to connect to a serial point on a linux print server.

I don’t have an ImageWriter. Any way to print? I’m wondering if I had a direct serial connection to a print server that could handle the printing...  maybe I’m dreaming. 

Thanks. I am thinking I’ll probably sell the later iMacs at some point. I never had one, and my interests are more in 90’s macs. I had a Quadra 660 back in the day, paired with the 14” Audiovision monitor. I regret selling those.   I’ll see if I can figure out what rev the original iMac is when...

Thanks. Any guesses as to the street value for each item?

Thanks. I don’t really care about OS X. I think I’ll just get the OS9 iso and load a clean version of that. 

Thanks for the garden link.  I found that last night, but I wasn't 100% sure it was the right one.  How does the process work?  Will restore disks 1-6 install everything back to factory fresh? Including dual boot with OS9?  I'm confused why there is also an OS9 install iso.  I've done zero...

I picked up four iMacs and an eMac from a nice couple that didn't have space for them.  I paid $200.  They are in really great shape.  Now I need to figure out what to do with them.  Any suggestions?  The iMac G4 will likely be my primary focus initially.  I believe this model can natively boot...

Hey Crutch, I don't mean to be a pest.  Any luck here?  I checked the garden, and it's still the zipped image files that I can't seem to get to mount.

Glad to help.  I couldn't get those images from the repository to work.  I ended up finding 6.0.8L elsewhere on the internet.  I actually prefer System 7.0.1 on my Classic II.  It boots very fast.  I couldn't get AppleShare on 6.0.8L to work with my OrangePi linux server running Netatalk for...

Are you using 6.0.8L? The regular 6.0.8 won’t work. 

Looks like some potential screen burn in.  I hope not.  Good luck.  Keep us posted on your progress.

So it took me a while to locate a copy of 6.0.8L.  I can't believe how fast it is!  My first Mac was a Classic II, and I've never used anything prior to System 7.  There are a few things I don't understand: I have an orangepi running netatalk and acting as a file and print server.  My orangepi...

LaPorta, Crutch, and MuOn, Thanks!  I've already downloaded a few.  I'll also get System 6.08 running on a partition.