[DM-MUG] Charity needs OS 10 disks.

[Jon Thompson]

OSX _technically_ does not run on pre powermac G3 hardware.

However, there is the ability to run it on these machines using  
XPostFacto.
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm? 
page=XPostFacto3.html

You have to deal with the slower bus of a 7600 and lack of  
accelerated graphics, unless you want to upgrade your video card too,  
which is difficult, as the cards that XPostFacto supports are long- 
discontinued.

I would strongly suggest just spending the money for some minis, if  
the nonprofit can afford it, as they are going to be much faster and  
more stable at what you want to do.
-- 
Jon Thompson
jthompson at greatapetrust.org
515.360.1351

Insights through collaborations with apes
Great Ape Trust of Iowa
www.greatapetrust.org



On 2006, Jul 13, at 9:11 AM, bailey wrote:

> I can probably help out some... I have a firewire/usb PCI combo  
> card you could use in the 7600. I haven't used it in over a year,  
> but it was working then...
>
> I'm not sure what the legal rule is on the version of the software  
> that ships with a computer. I have install disks for 10.3 for a  
> laptop that you could have, since I've upgraded that machine to a  
> retail copy of 10.4. I'm not entirely sure those disks would  
> install on a 7600, but we could try.
>
> =Bailey
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I now need four copies of the OS 10 operating system (preferably  
>> all OS 10.3) for the charity which I am working with on a video  
>> project. We could also use a firewire cable. If you could help let  
>> me know. This will be a very worthwhile and exciting project.
>>
>> Bob Titus has 4 iMacs which were contributed to Macs4Good for just  
>> such a project as this and a 7600 which we can use for video input  
>> output and for firewire after upgrading with a PCI Firewire card.   
>> We will be upgrading the memory on the iMacs. We will also need  
>> batteries for each machine.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>> -- 
>> Ray
>>
>> Des Moines, IA Mac Users Group
>> Fourth Tues of the month.
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