Wooo.. look what £27 will getcha!

gumbald · 20 Mar 2008 at 12:56

Any ideas what chipset on the USB wireless? That would make it a lot easier for me than using a wireless bridge...

itsallaboutyou · 20 Mar 2008 at 13:30

At the moment no, as I'm not near the computer - but I'll do my best to find out!

I think its just a generic usb wireless adapter... Unfortunately it doesnt work when plugged into the keyboard usb slot, but I did manage to get it working with the keyboard extension lead...

I'll have a goosey gander when I get in for you

Tom

gumbald · 20 Mar 2008 at 14:29

I've got an old unbranded one and a Netgear somewhere, doubt either of them will work though

itsallaboutyou · 20 Mar 2008 at 17:11

gumbald said:
I've got an old unbranded one and a Netgear somewhere, doubt either of them will work though

Might be worth a try!?

This one that the seller gave me is a conceptronic.. they have a website here.. old school. I've never even heard of them before I looked at this!

I'm pretty sure, as long as its mac os x compatible you shouldn't have any problems..

Let us know how you get on..

Alternatively - you can have this one if you want...

Wont cost a lot to put it in a jiffy envelope!

>:|sh4d0w|:< · 20 Mar 2008 at 18:13

itsallaboutyou said:
Eek! I'd have taken it off your hands!

I remember my dad's work had one of those duodock things in his work... cost an absolute fortune I seem to recall!

Youd have been most welcome to it, I had a ton of old mac hardware in really good condition but no one seemed to want it.

itsallaboutyou · 20 Mar 2008 at 19:19

>:|sh4d0w|:< said:
Youd have been most welcome to it, I had a ton of old mac hardware in really good condition but no one seemed to want it.

Dang! Ah well!

In future make a mental note.. any old junk you dont want... pass it to me!

JAMAL · 20 Mar 2008 at 19:43

I have been offered an emac with 1.25ghz cpu, 256mb ram, not sure on HD. It has a apple KB/Mouse all for £80.

Not sure if i should have it but i'm very tempted, it seem a bargain?

itsallaboutyou · 20 Mar 2008 at 19:47

JAMAL said:
I have been offered an emac with 1.25ghz cpu, 256mb ram, not sure on HD. It has a apple KB/Mouse all for £80.

Not sure if i should have it but i'm very tempted, it seem a bargain?

I dunno.. I'm not really up on the prices... maybe look on theebay and check what they've sold for in the past?

Out of interest... and I apologise if this sounds spooky - but are you buying it through work? 'Cos somebody in my organisation was selling the exact same spec machine... spooky!

I'd check on ebay

JAMAL · 20 Mar 2008 at 19:51

Its not through work no matey, just somebody local. I have been wanting a mac for a while after having an iphone and thought this maybe a cheap way to see how i get on with OSX

itsallaboutyou · 20 Mar 2008 at 19:56

JAMAL said:
Its not through work no matey, just somebody local. I have been wanting a mac for a while after having an iphone and thought this maybe a cheap way to see how i get on with OSX

Heh! Well I'd say go for it!

But check ebay. I can't seem to get it working... grr - but have a look and decide...*

I really mean buy it!

kefkef · 20 Mar 2008 at 20:37

Geez, this brings back memories. I worked for Epson starting in 1998, and we had a fair few Macs to play with. I still remember getting the first iMac through the door, the team leader wouldn't let anyone play with it and insisted that any iMac calls were routed to him to deal with! Was fun spending hours of time finding out why certain applications wouldn't print properly, or trying to help a customer get a certain colour space to print from Adobe. Fun Fun Fun.

With regards learning on your fancy dan 12mhz 286's, jeez you guys were spoilt, we had 10 BBC Micro's running at 2mhz with 32kb of memory (if i recall correctly!). Still got a cracking Archimedes A5000 at home in the loft (along with the obligatory Speccy 48k and Atari 2600) that ran Risc OS, the only OS that i think was ever better than MAC OS.

itsallaboutyou · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:36

kefkef said:
Geez, this brings back memories. I worked for Epson starting in 1998, and we had a fair few Macs to play with. I still remember getting the first iMac through the door, the team leader wouldn't let anyone play with it and insisted that any iMac calls were routed to him to deal with! Was fun spending hours of time finding out why certain applications wouldn't print properly, or trying to help a customer get a certain colour space to print from Adobe. Fun Fun Fun.

With regards learning on your fancy dan 12mhz 286's, jeez you guys were spoilt, we had 10 BBC Micro's running at 2mhz with 32kb of memory (if i recall correctly!). Still got a cracking Archimedes A5000 at home in the loft (along with the obligatory Speccy 48k and Atari 2600) that ran Risc OS, the only OS that i think was ever better than MAC OS.

BBC Master anyone? Vintage.. I remember the old acorns!

gumbald · 22 Mar 2008 at 12:39

itsallaboutyou said:
Might be worth a try!?

This one that the seller gave me is a conceptronic.. they have a website here.. old school. I've never even heard of them before I looked at this!

I'm pretty sure, as long as its mac os x compatible you shouldn't have any problems..

Let us know how you get on..

Alternatively - you can have this one if you want...

Wont cost a lot to put it in a jiffy envelope!

Neither of them seem to be working

The Netgear is proclaimed by many not to and the Safecom contains an SiS chipset! Which seems even less hope. If you don't want that one, I can PayPal you something across for it if you want?

MagicBoy · 22 Mar 2008 at 14:49

itsallaboutyou said:
BBC Master anyone? Vintage.. I remember the old acorns!

Showing my age here ...
I've still got a BBC B in my parents loft!

First Mac I used was a 512k at some work experience place I got sent to by school. They cost an absolute fortune as they were specced up with a 5Mb external hard drive.

itsallaboutyou · 22 Mar 2008 at 17:00

gumbald said:
Neither of them seem to be working The Netgear is proclaimed by many not to and the Safecom contains an SiS chipset! Which seems even less hope. If you don't want that one, I can PayPal you something across for it if you want?

Hey gumbald - it'll cost me like 90p to post it! Make a donation to a charity of your choice and we'll call it quits!

If you want to email me in trust - we can sort it out!

@MagicBoy - I'm the same, I remember when my dad's work got their first batch of apricots I think that we 'liberated' by which I mean, stole, a whole bunch of them... I'm sure there was a game called repton or something... awesome!

Tom

ajf · 22 Mar 2008 at 23:29

Good buy there.
I keep loking at these on 'that' auction site just to give a mac a go as never used one.
Would it be a fair and worthwhile purchase?
Couple I have seen had OS 10.3 on - not sure how 'current' that is?

Andrew

MagicBoy · 22 Mar 2008 at 23:41

10.3 is two versions behind - launched in Oct 2003, replaced by 10.4 Tiger in April 2005. So it's still newer than XP

Most current Mac software requires 10.3.9, but I'd upgrade to 10.4 Tiger if the machine has a decent amount of RAM.

jack uk · 22 Mar 2008 at 23:45

itsallaboutyou said:
Evening all - jus bagged this bargain on ebay.. in perfect working order and quite exciting!

Its approaching its ninth birthday and I am currently posting from it...

Really does go to show that the longevity of macs is second to none!

Anybody else got any retro gear still working!

Tom

Nice one dude! I was looking at buying a 20" iMac G4, all with orginal box and packing, I watched it on eBay (forgot about it) and went for £170

Thanks,
Jack

ajf · 22 Mar 2008 at 23:57

MagicBoy said:
10.3 is two versions behind - launched in Oct 2003, replaced by 10.4 Tiger in April 2005. So it's still newer than XP

Most current Mac software requires 10.3.9, but I'd upgrade to 10.4 Tiger if the machine has a decent amount of RAM.

Thanks.
What amount of ram should I look for? Couple I seriously looked at (albeit more than the one the OP got) were
17" G4 800Mhz
256Mb or 640Mb RAM
40GB drive
CD Drive
edit:
Just noticed it says it has OS 10.3 Can this be patched to 10.3.9 or is that a seperate version?
Guess I also need a DVD to install 10.4?

itsallaboutyou · 23 Mar 2008 at 03:57

ajf said:
Good buy there.
I keep loking at these on 'that' auction site just to give a mac a go as never used one.
Would it be a fair and worthwhile purchase?
Couple I have seen had OS 10.3 on - not sure how 'current' that is?

Andrew

I would suggest going for tiger! Most of the G3 macs, providing you can get the ram in (I think 1gb is the max) can handle it and its worthwhile getting hold of tiger... but as has been said, from what I understand 10.3.9 will run most mainstream apps!

There are some bargains to be had on 'that' site

so its well worth keeping your eye out! (although that actually might hinder your search!)

As I always say, I'm quite new to the world of apple - but its kewl that 11 year old hardware will run modern software!

@jack_uk - keep looking! There are plenty of bargains to be had!