Weirdly enough- games and and programs for my growing children have driven the last upgrade from a great 'Beige box' to June 04 G5. My question is : Do I have to buy a drive controller if I replace the Apple original 80gig with a terabyte hd? Are the partition restrictions obe?
June 04 dual g5 4gigs ram, 80/300 gig hard drive internal 10.4.11 I loved my first Mac, a 512ke dual floppy for many years, then saw Sim City on a IIfx...computer lust... Jeff Bequette [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 29, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Yersinia wrote: > > Simon writes, > > <I have been reading some posts over the past few weeks with > amazement. I > thought I was a minority with my love of old Macs. > > By old Macs I mean pre-G3, G3 and early G4. > > Talks on PowerMac 7500s, Performas, Beige G3, B&W G3, tray loading > iMacs > to name but a few. > > I belong to my local Mac group and they can be very snobby at > times, even > my Intel iMac (the first model from Jan 06) is regarded as old by > them. > > Then I go and ask a question about RAM problems in a Cube, display > problems with a PowerBook 1400cs, Clamshell iBook parts or help > with an > LC2 and the sarcastic comments flourish. > > It is so nice to be amongst people who love older Macs as much as I > do.> > > and Mel writes, > > <I too. > > Suppose that you lived less than two miles from the local shopping > center > where you did grocery shopping. Suppose that the speed limit was 35 > MPH > to and fro the shopping center.. Suppose you could obtain a model T > Ford > that might need a minor repair once very five years, a repair that you > could make within several minutes and without tools. To continue the > metaphor ad absurdum: Suppose the model T was the size of a IIci; > suppose > you had several spare IIci(s) bought for less than $20.00 each; > suppose > you had enough of almost any spare you might need for another 30 > years. > > Suppose someone offered you a Rolls Royce for less than $50,000 to be > used just for grocery shopping. What would you say in that event? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
