I moved the 1GHz iMac G4 upstairs and installed Leopard on it today. Not much going on there yet, and it is on the network via DHCP (so doesn’t have a stable IP address), but I can screen share into it from my office iMac, which I can screen share […]
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Well, yes, if “surprise” means “shock and horrify”
Again, do not do these things to hardware that still works. But here’s what someone does with iMac G4s. This beautiful lamp is made from an old iMac G4. Be the envy of your office. Surprise your mac lover. Be the coolest kid on your block. [Photo credit: Randall Littleton; […]
More thoughts on HDD replacements, with boring table
I’ve been exploring drive replacement options for the various machines that I have and which might need drive replacements, and I’m finding a surprisingly small amount of information about exactly what all of the drive options really are. This is a much more complex task than I’d originally given it […]
Brainstorming about the iMac G4 as an auxiliary display
So, I have a number of 15″ iMac G4 machines, some of the 800Mhz/512MB variety and at least one of the 1GHz/512MB variety. The 800Mhz machines are capable of booting Mac OS 9.2.2, and are among the last machines Apple made that can, although my G4 MDD is about the […]
Polishing the lamps
Things that come from computer recyclers tend to be a little on the grimy side. So, I spent a little while cleaning up all five of the iMac G4s and checking to see if they worked. A couple of them appear not to have hard drives in them. Really, none […]
iMac population explosion
Before today, I had a graphite iMac DV/SE which got pretty badly cracked during shipping. And I had a iMac G4 (which is currently kind of cutely perched atop my IIgs, Snoopy-style). Today’s trip to the computer recycler (a different one from the one I visited last time) yielded quite […]
A longer list than I’d realized
There are still a couple of things that I’ve gotten that haven’t been documented here yet. They’ll get more discussion later on. This is really mostly a list with pictures. I now have a Macintosh LC II, which has the notable property that it can host the Apple IIe emulator […]