>> You can easily share storage devices such as hard drives,floppy disks,
>> and Zip disks using Mac OS File Sharing. For more details on networking
>> your two Macs, see Part One of this series.
True, it's easy enough to ethernet two Macs, though as I recall from when
we did ours, there's $100-200 worth of cables, connectors etc. required.
But if understand the question posed earlier, it concerned upgrading an
older Mac to an iMac, and sound as if it was for a single user scenario.
This woman's old Mac may not have an ethernet port, so there would likely
be an additional expense involved with making it ethernet-ready. If I were
in her position, I'd consider it a royal PITA to have to keep an old Mac
running all the time simply to be able to use my new iMac. It seems a
highly impractical solution, particularly given that new G3 PowerMacs are
fairly cheap and would run her existing SCSI devices. If she can't afford a
G3, she could likely pick up a really hot older PowerMac like our 8500 or
9500 for an affordable price.
A word of warning: some old Mac-compatible monitors will not work on PowerMacs.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1190, 541-552-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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