Buy used USB and firewire peripherals from eBay auctions and then sell your current ones. You won't get as much money, but it will be close. I know, I migrated from a 7100 to an iMac last fall, and "traded in" all of my peripherals this way. I broke almost even.
On 5/28/02 1:37 PM, "Kaufman, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several USB and firewire converters out > there. They work with varying degree of success. > In general the USB to serial converter work the > best, the firewire to SCSI converter are so so, > and the USB to SCSI converter are marginal at > best. Connecting SCSI scanners to an iMac up a > USB converter is probably the most problematic. > > All the new iMacs come with an internal modem so > you probably don't need the old external > modem. The firewire to SCSI interface works > o.k. with a Zip drive, USB to SCSI with a Zip > drive is cheaper but it is more problematic > (appears to more prone to problems with large > file 20MB+ transfers). I would think that the > SCSI CD burner would not work very well with > either type of converter but that is just a > guess. The serial printer and camera would > probably be limited by driver software > compatibility. With the camera you could use > a USB compact flash/pmcia/stick reader, they > are cheap and work great. The printer will > probably be o.k. with OS 9 but not with OS X. > > Software is a whole other kettle of fish. In > general most 68K software will work under OS 9. > There are many many many more compatibility problems > using the classic panel via OS X. There are some > obvious exceptions - software that is not 32 bit > clean won't work, nor will software that REQUIRES > 16 or 2 color screen depths. Some software will > only work in 256 color modes but the software is > NOT smart enough to recognize this, so you need > to manually change the color depth. There is a > freeware Control Panel that can be used to emulate > a 68K FPU that is required for some software, it > works but there is a speed penalty (general you > still come out faster, faster iMac processor speed > more than offsets the slow emulation speed). And > some older 68K still won't work for unknown > reasons (Lotus 123 for Macintosh is a prime > example). -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
