On 1/20/10 10:56 AM, FluxStringer wrote:
Recently I was handed an iMac that needed a home. It took me a while
to find a power cord, but it started on the first try. It seems to
have gone unused since '06. But even with a dirty face it was too cute
tor the lady to throw out and the little guy/gal (?) runs pretty
snappy for 350 MHz.
I guess you call it a blueberry. Sort of a Bondi blue back with a
pearly striped front. slot load of course.
( I just found out it is a Blueberry as I stuck in a DVD which it wont
spit out! I could have looked at ASP, but it had DVD player on the
Apple menu!))
It is running 9.2 and I find no OS X volume.
Me ? I have been on the PCI list since '99 and the G list since about
'05. I'm also on several other LEM lists.
I am semi retired but interested in video and web media production and
the applications that support those efforts.
I also speak some PC but come from an Amiga background so I hold some
strong opinions there.
Anyway I'll be looking to the swap list to max out this little tyke's
memory lobe. Maybe a bigger internal drive too.
If anyone can tell me how to coax it to spit up the DVD for a test
with a CD I would appreciate it. It keeps cycling so there is never an
icon and the other methods don't work. I find no eject pinhole either.
Hold down the mouse button on startup, that should eject the disk.
VERY IMPORTANT... Check the firmware version. If you attempt to BOOT
from an OS X installer disk and the firmware hasn't been updated the
video will stop working and it's very hard to get it back.
Here's a web page for the update:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130#English>
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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