Hi Listie's:
I have an old 7200/90 with a 512K L2 in it, 144 meg ram, 2GB and 540MB Hdd's in it. I have on the shelf PCI USB, and Firewire cards. I was thinking of putting an IDE drive card in it and a 60Gig Hdd in place of the 540 scsi-2 and putting my music library on it? It's running OS 8.6 but even iTunes 1.1 requires OS 9! Is there a way to stick with 8.6 and use iTunes 1.1? What about alternatives to iTunes 1.1?
If you are simply serving the files from this machine then it doesn't matter about iTunes, that is an issue for the client machine that is playing the music. I have an WGS 8550 with a 60H HD (with IDE card), 100BaseT and AppleShare server software running on it. As a test once I had 6 machines all playing music served off this machine. Hard to be certain but I don't think any of the client machines skipped a beat. AppleShare server software makes a significant difference though. You could have problems using FileSharing. It would likely work okay for a single client, it would likely not serve as many clients as AppleShare server.
As an aside there is a patch to make iTunes 1.1 work with OS 8 (I did it with OS 8.6, I don't know for certain if it works with OS 8.1).
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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