Good ‘ol Faithful
Published 5 years, 8 months ago in macintosh
I got the trusty ‘ol bondi iMac online tonight at the house… it’s not pretty, but it works… We bought this old iMac in 1998, and originally, it had a 233 MHz G3 processor (pretty fast for the time) and 32MB of on board RAM, 2 or 4 MB of VRAM and a 4 GB Hard Drive and I think was running Mac OS 8. I’ve since upgraded it to a 433 MHz G4 processor, maxed out the RAM at 256 MB and upgraded the Hard drive to 45 GB. The video processor is still a dog, and while I’m running Mac OS X on this machine, it definitely bends under a lot of pressure, mainly due (my assumption here) to the poor video card in it. Alas, that video card is soldered to the motherboard, otherwise, I’d likely figure out how to upgrade it, if I could.
And to think, this trusty old machine used to crank out iMac2Day.com back in the day…
There’s a mess of ethernet and coax cables running from the second bedroom into the office (anyone that can tell me how to get an old Rev/B iMac on a wireless network without buying anything or running extra cables gets lunch) for now, and while it’s not pretty, it’s actually easily cleaned up for company by just unplugging the iMac from the network and rolling all of the cables up into the other room…
(the iBook should be going out to the shop tomorrow, and hopefully will return shortly)
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I’m not an expert in getting old(er) Mac’s hooked up, but there is IOExperts and they seem to have OSX drivers for a bunch of ethernet cards… perhaps if you’ve got an open slot next to that soldered vid card you might be able to get it running that way? Otherwise there’s this USB wireless that might work.
(Keep in mind I’ve never tried any of these solutions - they just look like reasonable possibilities to me.)
These are a bitch to setup the first time, but work like butter…
I use one for my Tivo.
It’s a wireless bridge by linksys..
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=432
My Bondi iMac has q 400 MHz processor, an 80 GB HD (looked too hard to swap that into my new eMac so I left it), 512 MB of RAM, which is the max, 6 MB for the ATi Card and somewhere sits a Voodoo 2 card.
It serves me MP3s and acts as a local web host.