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[Franko]

I wish we still had thousands who were actually actively using their Amigas, Classic, Next Gen, or Emulation.  I haven't seen any evidence that we have over 1,999 users left who still use their Amiga computers as anything more than a nostalgic hobby, or an interesting diversion from their mainstream computer experiences (which are almost always required for work, or because they can't do everything they need, or want to do on a computer from their Amiga, or Amiga-Like computers), which they turn on more than once a week, or once a month.

While I agree with your sentiments, I have to disagree on the Amiga being nothing more than a hobby or diversion.

I use my Amigas for all my computing need's, Audio, Gfx, DTP etc.. on a daily basis, the only thing I use my iMac for is the net...

[Franko]

Heretic!

Believe me I'd love to get this old iMac doing something useful, but you'd need to use a calendar to time the bootup sequence and you could take the dog for along walk waiting for iTunes to start...

[Franko]

Is it PPC or Intel?

It's an old iMacG4 800Mhz PPC, bought it for £65 then had to pay some geezer nearly 400 quid to fully upgrade it to OS X 10.4.11



Make's a nice desk lamp though...

[Franko]

@ Nicholas

Cheers mate... I think... :confused:

Erm... bit of a dummy when it comes to macs, is that a cd or dvd I burn it to... :confused:

Will I lose all my data, progs, passwords, cookies etc... if I do this ?

I don't have any backup OSX discs if it goes wrong...

I assume Lubuntu is a different OS system...

Or is this all just a plot to blow up me mac and stop me posting nonsense on Amiga.org... :roflmao:

PS:The bill broke down as

1GB Memory Upgrade  £60
160GB Hard Disk £48
DVDRW Drive  £25
Upgrade OSX 10.2 to OSX10.4.11
Call Out Charge £55
Labour £192

Total Cost £380

(Spot the Mug or What ... )

[Franko]

Cheers Tone,

I'll give that way a try first, as I say I have no way of reinstalling OSX back on this mac and don't want to lose any of the data on it.

Anything has to be better than OSX10.4 which I find terribly slow...

[Franko]

@ Tone & Nicholas

I've got a spare 500Gb external Sata HD & one of the little SATA to USB adapters, I'll backup all my data first then give it a try (might take a while though it's only USB1.1)

I picked up the iMac at an action for £65 and thought, that looks like a bargain, and as I was too busy decorating at the time I thought I'll get someone in to set it up for me, it won't cost much... Boy was I wrong...

It was only after that I discovered that for a couple of hundred quid more I could have bought a new one, more money than sense me...

(Never thought I'd see the day when I was seriously talking about Macs...)

[Franko]

To be Franko, I think I'll just have to stick with crapple OSX 10.4...

Backed up all my data, burnt the ISO, popped it in, booted up....

Nothing except for a black screen, waited for about an hour & nothing happend... (tried a couple of times)

Ah well, thanks anyway guys it was worth a try, I'll need to scour the net and see if I can find any info on how to get it up and running on such an old mac...

Cheers :drink:

Franko

[Franko]

Yup, same here, however I'll keep mucking around with it and see if anything can be done without too much hassle or losing all data. It would be nice to get these old iMacs running at a decent speed but it's not looking too promising though...

[Franko]

http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/27/technology/microsoft_pdc/index.htm

CNN Story about Microsoft as a dying brand.

I know I shouldn't laugh, I mean all those folk that could be out of a job, but what the hell it's Microsoft after all... :biglaugh: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao::banana: