Greeting! ################### # Specs: # Apple Power Mac G3 Blue & White (Codename “Yosemite”) # PowerMac1,1 # Rev.1 system board (faulty CMD646 IDE chip!) # 350 MHz G3 (PowerPC 750) # 1.0 GB of PC100 SDRAM # ACARD AEC-6280M ATA-133 PCI card (seen as SCSI) # 160GB SATA drive as main boot drive (using a SATA/IDE adapter) # ATi Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card with 128 MB VRAM # USB 2.0 PCI expansion card # Non-original input devices # USB Apple Pro Keyboard, black (NO remote power key) # USB Apple Pro Mouse, black #http://lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html #http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/stats/powermac_g3_350_bl.html # Mac OS X 10.4.11 # Mac OS 9.2.2 as Classic Environment # Mac OS 8.6 from original installation media (8.5.1 updated to 8.6) ###################
I’m using it now for around two years and I’m very happy with it. I had a lot of help from people here in the G-Group to make it run again and to have it run its original OS. Thing is, I’m normally using it with Mac OS X 10.4.11 “Tiger”, but the 350 MHz are the bottleneck. It’s working, but being used to a G5 Dual-2GHz at home it really feels slow to work with. Recently I’ve started using the original Mac OS it came with: 8.5.1. I found that the big advantange would be speed! The classic Mac OS is very fast and responsive on this Power Mac machine: 350 MHz and 1 GB of RAM is really a high-end configuration for it. I had no software though. So I updated it to 8.6, merly because it was free and wouldn’t hurt, and with the help of a great abandonware site I then obtained some digital copies of older versions of the software I legally bought: I’ve got Office:mac 2004 so now I’m using Office:mac 2001 on Mac OS 8.6. I’ve got iWork ’08 + iLife ’08 so I installed Apple Works 6.2.4 on Mac OS 8.6. I’m new to Mac OS 8.6, so I’d appreciate help with the following issues I have (priorities: important questions first): 1) I have a TrueCrypt partition under Mac OS X: whenever I boot into Mac OS 8.6 I am being asked to initialize that partition (volume) – how can I stop Mac OS from asking me? 2) How do I install TrueType and OpenType fonts on Mac OS 8.6? 3) Is there a way to lock the screen (for when leaving the desk)? 4) Where do I set a user password for login? 5) Is there a free solution to print to PDF files (like in Mac OS X)? 6) I have several .sit and .hqx files, but I can only unpack them (using The UnArchiver) under Mac OS X, not in Mac OS 8.6. 7) The Option key doesn’t provide a boot selection on this Mac. This is very inconvenient, because for switching between Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS 8.6 (and Mac OS 9.2) I have to select a new start volume from the control panel item in either Mac OS. This is very annoying when I start the Mac and I don’t want what I last have selected. Any thoughts? Is there a 3rd party boot menu available of anything? I don’t want to use Open Firmware commands, since the ACARD path is very long… 8) Any thoughts on using DVD-RAM under Mac OS 8.6? 9) Should I use Mac OS 9.0/9.2 instead of 8.6? I’m very happy with 8.6. 10) Last but not least: I’ve got a Huawei E152 3G USB modem which is running great on Mac OS X: the 3DataManager (the dial-up software) is even compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther”! BUT: any chances on Mac OS 8.6? My guess is that there is no hope, but I thought I’d ask anyway… Thanks in advance, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- 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
