Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

Will *any* external USB floppy drive work with my G4?

If you are using a system so early that it doesn't have CarbonLib, and
if you're willing to be part of a little experiment, please email me.
I'm trying to get the facts right about compatibility for the next
edition of my AppleScript book, and I'd like to know whether an

Pretty much as subject. I have a lot of music in my iTunes collection,
and at times I much prefer to listen to a random selection of music than
to an entire CD from one artist.
So, I'm thinking of some means of connecting my G5 iMac to my hifi.

I bought my mom a new iMac last Christmas to replace her pc.  Her old
system had a nice hp 1100A laserjet and I'm wondering if it can be
hooked up to the mac.  The laserjet was purchased in 1999 and doesn't
have any USB connections, and of course the iMac only uses USB

I'm trying to get my old iMac up and running again and I had to take
it apart for new battery.  While the board's still out I thought I'd
do something about the stock 233MHZ CPU and 32MB RAM.  But there's
some conflicting info on internet.

i wanted to compile some software that was not available in the fink
repository in either binary or source, namely uudeview but more in the
future.  i would like to confine the compiling process to the /sw/
folder that contains fink so as not to disturb any of the Tiger system.

I'd like to sign up for the Vonage SoftPhone and need to buy a
telephone headset to plug into my G4 Notebook.  What's a good headset
with microphone to use?  USB, FireWire?
TIA

I picked up 2 G3's at a school sale for 8 bucks thinking it might be a
good way to learn about Mac's and hopefully migrate from Winderz to
Apple.
They both worked great so far as booting up etc. but I was very limited

Hi
I have a home network with 2 hardwired pcs and a pc laptop wireless
and a new mac ibook (10.4 os) using airport.
the router is linksys with a cisco icon WRT54GS.

Does anyone know a website that includes freeware games for a G3 B@W Mac
with 320 Mb of ram etc.
Have found a few places, but is there somewhere that has specs for what
the freeware needs to be run on, so I can get an idea if its worth

I have a Blue and White G3-350 with the original 6gig hard drive, and an
external 200 gig firewire HD.
Last week I had main hard drive problems and after two days wasted on
various actions I eventually backed up everything on the firewire drive

I would like to send/receive IR to communicate with my Palm. I bought an
IrDA, but I can't get it to work with my G5. I guess the Mac laptops have
the necessary software, but it's not installed on desktop machines. At
least, this is my assumption.

Well now, I've been connecting to my wife's computer for months, from
Panther to 9,2.2.
It's about time for her to be able to delve into my drives? Right? I
trust her further than I can throw her.

Anyone using a PCI USB 2 card in a beige G3 (tower or desktop?) ?
If so does it provide faster transfers than an USB 1 card (i.e. is the
system really able to keep up to make a difference?)
I have a beige G3 tower using (mainly) OS 9.2.2 (with an occasional boot

I have a 15-inch Titanium powerbook with OS 10.4.  My classic mode
system is OS 9.2.2, which was copied from another system folder.  I use
minimal extensions since I only operate a few programs under classic
mode.  When I start classic, all of the extensions load and then there