A friend has come into possession of a "huge collection of machines all hooked together, mainly Macs" after the death of the owner, the father of a co-worker. He knows nothing about them and wants to see if they run and if so, if we can recover any data from them for his friend.
The machines are being removed piecemeal and he's trying to clean them up and get them running. Currently he has either an Indigo Blue or Blueberry iMac, a Power Mac G3 desktop with a "Powered by Sonnet" sticker on it and a G4 GigE with dual 500Mhz processors. (I haven't seen any of these machines myself, nor the others, so I'm working off his descriptions, so please bear with me.) Needless to say, most if not all of this stuff is in disarray; I don't think he even has enough power cords, mice or keyboards for these things. If he uses current day power cords, will it be safe? Secondly, what keyboards do exist need some serious cleaning up. If he plugs his aluminum Mac keyboard and mighty mouse in, will they work, or will they only work on the most recent flavor of OSX? The PM G3 has a video card in it, with DVI and VGA ports - so he can safely hook up a regular monitor to it, right? Finally, I'm concerned he may not have the original system discs for these puppies. What kind of problems might this present to him when it comes time to diagnose the hardware & software and set up Admin privileges to manage the machines? And the part that scares me is, his friend did not know Macs, tried to shut them down while they were running and networked together (with apparently a ton of stuff still up and running on them), and she lost her patience and power switched them off. So... Between some pressing deadlines and the holidays and all, I probably won't get the chance to go and help him first-hand for at least another week or so. In the meantime, I promised him I'd throw this all out to the collective brain trust here to see what sticks. Needless to say, the operative word here is "Help!" ;-) Thanks, Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
