Honestly folks, the answer is not "upgrade your Mac." I used to post why I had such a dinosaur still in service until I got sick of everyone ignoring what I wrote.
There is a program on that computer that is vital to the operation of three very large and very expensive turret punches and one laser cutter that are the life's blood of the business that supplies my paycheck. Kris, I am fully aware it isn't the nineties. The company who designed the software we have to use dropped their Mac version in the nineties, and it's a #$^% of a lot cheaper to keep using old Macs and old Mac OSes than it is to spend $250K to put new PC based controllers on those four very large and expensive manufacturing machines. Not to mention, I am really not interested in having any more contact with Windows than I do right now (XP via VMWare Fusion). Peter, without knowing what this Mac is used for and why I need it, on what premise do you base your advice that "it's time to upgrade to at least a Digital Audio?" Doug, thanks, but I already looked in the Startup Items folder. It's up there in my list of "where it isn't." I apologize if I am sounding really bitchy, but it is extremely irritating when I ask a question and everyone tells me to upgrade my hardware and install some version of OS X or Linux. Multipunch will not function properly on OS 9 and not at all on any version of OS X. If my memory serves me right, nothing newer than the Yikes! G4 will run OS 8.6. I would have upgraded YEARS ago if it had been possible. The iMac where I do most of my work is only 1 year old and is running 10.6.6. Ditto for the Mac Mini I have at home. And guys,what exactly is the attraction of Ubuntu? My brother insisted on installing it on the PC he brought to my parents' house and I think the user interface is awful, and printing is torturous. I am all about ease of installation (watched someone install RedHat: talk about a nightmare), ease of use (do you really think Ubuntu is intuitive?), and ease of integration (plug and play in Linux? NOT!). I just don't "get" the attraction of Linux. Besides, there is no flavor of Unix that will solve this problem for me. -- 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
