I recently went looking for an older iMac, simply because I thought
they really looked 'cool'. I found one for $150 at
macofalltrades.com and bought it. I thought it would be a fun toy to
play with.
It got here and had 9.2 installed. I found that it had 2 USB ports
and 2 firewire ports as well as network and modem and a VGA connector
in the back. To my surprise, it also has 256 RAM and a place to put
an airport carrier for the original airport card (just so happens, I
have one). It only has a CD-ROM--the slot loading type and I wanted
to load Tiger on it....I only have it on DVD.
I wondered, now if this iMac has all these features, will it also
boot up in firewire target disk mode? I restarted and held down the
T key....sure enough, it did! I connected it to a Quicksilver and
installed Tiger on it. It's running it perfectly!
I have to say, I'm simply impressed. Here I thought I was getting a
toy to play around with and it turns out I got a machine that can
play along with some of my other Macs.
Only thing I need to change is the hard drive. It is only 10 gig.
I've looked at a few of the instruction manuals on how to do this and
it looks a bit complicated and I have about 20 years experience of
upgrading PC's and Macs. Anyway, I am going to invest in the card
carrier and I have a 120 gig firewire HD connected to it.
I'll end this post by saying, I'm simply pleased.
Tim
Exterminate all rational though.
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