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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / August 2005Mini Mac question
I am considering buying a Mini Mac, mainly because I am tired of dealing with all the spyware and worm viruses that come to my PC computer. But I have a few questions: - Can I use a keyboard from my old Mac SE computer (1988 model) with the Mac Mini; also is there a way I could transfer the files I have on the hard drive of the Mac SE and also the floppy disks into the Mac Mini? Could I run software originally made for the Mac SE, such as Microsoft Word, on the Mac Mini? - Would the CD-RW drive of the Mac Mini recognize CD-RWs I used for backing up my PC, and if so, could the Mac Mini convert those files, including for Eudora from the PC? - At the library whee I work, they have a room full of I-Mac and Dell computers. For some reason the I-Mac cannot scan in multipage documents properly as it treats each page as a PDF file, and as a single document. Is this just a problem they have at the library because they haven't formatted the computers properly, or is this a general problem with the Mac computers? I might be scanning alot of old newsletters and am just interested in the text going in as multipage documents, I don't care about the pictures. Any information would be greatly appreciated. - Steve Denney Stephen Denney said: > I am considering buying a Mini Mac, That's "Mac Mini" > mainly because I am tired of dealing > with all the spyware and worm viruses that come to my PC computer. But I > have a few questions: > > - Can I use a keyboard from my old Mac SE computer (1988 model) with the > Mac Mini; No. Apple computers now use USB keyboards. Your Mac SE uses the Apple Desktop Bus for its. > also is there a way I could transfer the files I have on the > hard drive of the Mac SE and also the floppy disks into the Mac Mini? I don't suppose your SE has an Ethernet card in the expansion slot? The SE has SCSI and you should be able to find a SCSI CD burner for little money on eBay. > Could I run software originally made for the Mac SE, such as Microsoft > Word, on the Mac Mini? The Mac Mini comes wit OS X installed. legacy, OS 9 applications can be run in "Classic" mode - which emulates OS 9.2.2 inside OS X, but your SE probably runs some version of OS 7 or 8 and I don't know if an old version of Word would run even in classic mode. Once you get into OS X you won't want to visit Classic-land so, if at all possible you'll want to invest in OS X software. The Mini comes with a reasonable text editing programme. > - Would the CD-RW drive of the Mac Mini recognize CD-RWs I used for > backing up my PC, It should. > and if so, could the Mac Mini convert those files, > including for Eudora from the PC? It's up to Eudora whether it recognizes files from the PC version of the programme (I didn't know there was one) but, for example, MS office uses the same files on both platforms; no conversion necessary. > - At the library whee I work, they have a room full of I-Mac and Dell > computers. For some reason the I-Mac cannot scan in multipage documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > interested in the text going in as multipage documents, I don't care about > the pictures. Don't know about this but I'd be really surprised if there's no Mac software to do what you want. Steve = : ^ ) > Stephen Denney said: > > also is there a way I could transfer the files I have on the > > hard drive of the Mac SE and also the floppy disks into the Mac Mini? > > I don't suppose your SE has an Ethernet card in the expansion slot? The SE > has SCSI and you should be able to find a SCSI CD burner for little money on > eBay. The other common solution is to email those files to yourself. -- > Stephen Denney said: >> I am considering buying a Mini Mac, > > That's "Mac Mini" Actually it's a "Mac mini", but who's counting :-). [Reading MS Word files] > OS X software. The Mini comes with a reasonable text editing programme. ... called "TextEdit", which has a red hot go at reading MS Word files and does pretty well most of the time. The formatting might be a bit wonky but as long as the Word files aren't too fancy you'll probably be ok. Cheers, Robert. Robert Atkins said: >> Stephen Denney said: >>> I am considering buying a Mini Mac, >> >> That's "Mac Mini" > > Actually it's a "Mac mini", but who's counting :-). Hey, so it is. You'd think they would have used title case for the name, but they didn't. > [Reading MS Word files] > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cheers, Robert. > - At the library whee I work, they have a room full of I-Mac and Dell > computers. For some reason the I-Mac cannot scan in multipage documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > interested in the text going in as multipage documents, I don't care about > the pictures. What scanning software are you using on the Mac? Are you doing OCR or just storing the pages as images? Omnipage Pro handles multipage OCR ok. P  SignaturePeter McCallum Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA On 21/8/05 4:33 AM, in article Pine.SOL.4.63.0508201123000.12631@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU, "Stephen Denney" <sdenney@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > I am considering buying a Mini Mac, mainly because I am tired of dealing > with all the spyware and worm viruses that come to my PC computer. But I > have a few questions: That is fine, which is fair enough. > - Can I use a keyboard from my old Mac SE computer (1988 model) with the > Mac Mini; also is there a way I could transfer the files I have on the > hard drive of the Mac SE and also the floppy disks into the Mac Mini? > Could I run software originally made for the Mac SE, such as Microsoft > Word, on the Mac Mini? Macintosh SE uses ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) keyboard, there is no way you can use that keyboard in minimac, you'll need an USB Keyboard, you also can get Microsoft wireless keyboard for it. You can buy external USB Floppy Disk Drive for the mini mac - works well. Other option is to get a SCSI CD Burner (I have one here if you would be interested to buy it) > - Would the CD-RW drive of the Mac Mini recognize CD-RWs I used for > backing up my PC, and if so, could the Mac Mini convert those files, > including for Eudora from the PC? Yup, it should be able to recognise all CDRWs Email documents - I doubt it but if you export all single emails and import into new email application in minimac. > - At the library whee I work, they have a room full of I-Mac and Dell > computers. For some reason the I-Mac cannot scan in multipage documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > interested in the text going in as multipage documents, I don't care about > the pictures. Maybe OSX should be able to recognise them, I am 95% sure it would be able to do that. > Any information would be greatly appreciated. > > - Steve Denney My Brother has MiniMac 1.42ghz with Combo unit, he loves it but its not an ideal computer for "Heavy" use such as video, large graphic editing, movies etc, large files also DVD copying its a VERY basic compact computer based on minimal specifications, also I recommend you to have more than 512mb RAM, 256mb is too small otherwise it'll use the Hard Disk space converted to memory which will WAY SLOW down the MiniMac since the internal hard drive isn't fast enough. Good enough for basic minimal use, if you are planning to use it for everyday I would recommend/go for G5 instead of minimac. Cheers Tristan > Macintosh SE uses ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) keyboard, there is no way you can > use that keyboard in minimac, you'll need an USB Keyboard, Actually, there are (or were) ADB-to-USB doovers about. I used to have one on a G3 iMac so I could use a nice Logitech trackball that had been discontinued. But the one I had has no OS X drivers and wouldn't work without driver support. There *may* still be such units around, but they'll be far more expensive than a cheap USB keyboard. As to the Eudora-conversion thing, check the Eudora website and see if the Mac version will read mailboxes from a PC. Wouldn't be at all surprised if it did. Matt Eudora for the Mac can read Eudora for the PC mailboxes, after a conversion process. I have done it a few times over the years: Mac Eudora to PC Eudora to Mac Eudora to PC Eudora to Mac Eudora to Apple Mail. PC Eudora to Mac Eudora was easier, probably because I was famiiar with the Mac tools. Detailed here. http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1644hq.html >From memory, I think I just opened each mailbox in Tex-Edit Plus, and did something to the line endings. Can't fully recall. But it was quite easy and I didn't lose data. Anyway, it's a doable task. Mac mini is a cutie. My family has one. About as powerful as a current Apple iBook. Much more worthwhile if you can BYODKM (display, keyboard, mouse). If you have to buy those new, then the price goes up possibly (not definitely) till the eMac and iMac look like better buys. And yes, you can use PC monitors, USB keyboard and mice without additional software. The scanner is a bit of a toss up, depending on what model it is. Good luck. |
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