in reference to this matter as discussed before and I should have
expanded upon this somewhat more.
the old style g3 iMacs are limited in power most of the time and
average at a 300 to 350mhz or so G3. the latest version that can work
on the mac would be OS X panther edition. but its sluggish and as you
and I know there's no screen reader support for it.
an iMac can of course be upgraded but you will be lucky to find
upgrade boards for it. hard drives and memory will be tricky and the
cd drive is not user replaceable as there is nothing that complies
with it.
I had the experience of customising an iMac G3 600 with slot loading
DVD ROM and firewire. I installed an 80GB drive and 1GB ram and it
worked fine. it ran OS 10.3 fine but would not take on 10.4 because
the disc requires a minimum of a G3 800 or similar to run it. it has
been successfully done however on a G3 blue and white tower 400 with
768mb ram and a 30gb drive.
your best bet is OS 9.2 with outspoken. but you might find yourself a
little limited with internet usage due to the issues of internet
having changed so much since 2000 where we now have high resolution
pages, java, flash and more.
if you can find out your spec of iMac etc and let me know I will help
you as best I can.
I have in my posession OS X 10.4 retail edition for PPC architecture.
and a few bits
lew
On 8 Mar 2008, at 19:22, Scott Bresnahan wrote:
Hi,
Realistically MacOS 9 can't talk.
There have been a lot of "imacs" over the years, guessing you have a
version that is a 15" CRT? I speculate that your iMac is so old
that it only has a CD ROM drive and your Tiger disk is a DVD.
I might try seeing if your iMac supports booting into Target mode.
Hook up a firewire cable to your Tiger Mac and the iMac and turn on
the iMac with the T key pressed. I'm not sure when Apple started
supporting this mode, though, and it may be after your iMac was
built. If it works, you can install Tiger from your other Mac as if
on an external disk.
My only other suggestion is an external DVD ROM drive (assuming your
Tiger disk is a DVD of course).
I do know you can install Tiger on an iMac DV model.
--Scott
OK i have just inherited an imac using OS 9. can it talk? if so how
do i get it to? also i tried my tiger disks but it didn't seem to
like them. any thoughts?
thanks a lot for any help
Keith
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--Scott
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