It seems to me that the quick solution to the problem is to purchase a tower such as a Apple G-4 Quicksilver with a zip drive built in bellow the CD/DVD drive (I just checked ebay and you can buy them now for $150) so you can read your zip drives. Then get an external case for your G-4 drive and put it in that so you will be able to access all those files also from the Quicksilver and you should be good to go. The reason I suggested the Quicksilver is that I have had one for years with no issues, although I did upgrade mine from a 1 Ghz G-4 to a 2.2Ghz G-4 for better Photoshop speed.
Just don¹t run Snow Leopard on the Quicksilver and you should be able to run all your old software just fine for very little money, although you wouldn¹t have a laptop, but then the iMac was a desktop unit also. Tom On 2/5/10 9:10 AM, "Sheryl Birkhead" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Forgive my long winded post-- but somethings have worked (I can get at >> FreeHand)--but some have not (zip drive and floppy...)and now the Wallstreet >> is dead. >> >> Thanks-- Sheryl > > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
