I haven't seen the iMac discussed, although I may have overlooked it. The last iMac to boot into OS9 was an iLamp. The G4/800 MHz, 17" LCD model and 15" LCD models.
There was a nearly identical 17" iLamp model which does not boot OS9. The one that does is model M8812LL/A. It shipped with an 80.0 GB hard drive and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX graphics with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM (AGP 2X support). The 17" iMac which does not boot OS9 is model M9105LL/A. It shipped with a 60.0 GB and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM (AGP 2X support). The two machines are very difficult to tell apart. Everymac.com has the details, of course. >From what I've read, the "special" version of OS9 that the MDDs needed was really a matter of having the proper MacOS ROM file installed in the OS9 system folder. If this is incorrect, I'd love to read other details. One of my back-burner projects (too many hobbies) is to get the two MDDs in the house booting OS9 reliably. They're both 400Mbps Firewire models and I've only worked on one of them so far (probably more than a year ago). Some nice people sent me some disks which I really need to experiment with. Fish. Cat. Vegetable garden. Eight-year-old. Work. Electronics. Homeowning. Sigh. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
