This is a tray loading iMac. They came out in the from '98 to '00. You can run Mac OS 10.3 on the machine. With a little xpostfacto hac, you will bee able to run 10.4. You can add a maximum of 512meg of memory. Apple will say 256meg.
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The screen tends to go bad on these machine. The harddrive is past do for replacement.
This could be the original iMac g3. It is the right color. Could be a colletors item.
Look for the system profiler. Click on the apple icon in the tope left. Look for about this mac> more info. Or, look for system profiler. This will give yu more details abou the mac.
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it does have a 10/100 ethernet port.
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You may run Mac OS 10.3 on this machine. Mac OS X takes about 4gig. You can trim it down to 3gig with a custom install.
This will require a minimum of 128meg of ram. More is better. I'd suggest 256. You may put 512meg of ram in this machine. There are two memory slots. One must be Low Profile memory. Be sure you can return your memory cards. iMac memory cards are finicky.
You should verify that you have the latest firmware, before installing new software. See the system profiler for details. What firmware do you need?
Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down command+option+o+f
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
All the tray loading iMac g3's, models a-d, are constructed the same.
While this article deals with adding memory, you should see the pram battery on the logic board when you get to step 17.
You should skip steps 17 to 20. Look for the pram battery instead.
Here is a good disassembly page:
Iomegaware Software
The second article in this series has information on replacing the battery:
How To Upgrade Your iMac
The tray loading iMac requires the boot partition to be within 8gig. Since there are hidden partitions before the first visible partition, people recommend that you make the first visible partition 7.5 gig to 7.9gig. The machines support upto a 128gig Parallel ATA drive.
You should be able to use Unix symbolic links to 'move' some directory like /Users to the second visible partition.
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Robert
Jan 8, 2012 8:07 PM
Hm, I think you need the 'IomegaWare 3.5EN to do this. the problem here is that is is now remowed from the Iomega download pages. You can get it from me by sending a mail off-list to <[email protected]> remove capital letters to make valid. The IOWare 3.5 should also work on system 7.6.x, but if it doesn't work, I also have the older IomegaWare 2.1.1 and somewhere probably also the ver. 2.5. - If you want it, your mailbox must be able to take an attachment of apprx. 7mb, - else I can send it via YouSendIt!.
The problems with the obviously open sharing could be a matter of correct termination or a conflict with the SCSI ID - the same ID already used by another device. If your Jaz drive is an original Iomega, set the SCSI ID to '5' and be sure that the terminator is turned 'ON'.
If your drive is a LaCie d2 drive, again set the SCSI ID to '5' and then be sure that the small termination button down left corner is set to 'AUTO ON'. The SCSI cable should be a Centronics->DB-25 so you can connect the upper SCSI port with the Centronics plug and the computer with the DB-25 plug.
If you have the Silverlining 6.0.x or the Silverlining D2, you can also use one of these to format the cartridges. - Just remember here only to set the allocation size to 4kb/per block = standard HFS. Both versions of Silverlining can go as low as 512kb/sector, but if you go that far down, you won't be able to read any content on any Mac Os - except the one where you have initialized the cartridge, - unless you afterwards again re-initialize to std. HFS using either DriveSetup 6.3.x or on a OS X machine Diskutility - AND you MUSt re-initialize using zero all data option.
Cheers, Erik Richard
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