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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    One question about the RAM, in the manual/service link you gave me it says: that it uses PC-100 SDRAM running at 125Mhz or better. But PC-100 runs at 100Mhz! Does anyone know what speed RAM it really does need?
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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    Well, I have just turned the computer on with the Apple OS 9 CD in the drive, it booted and took me into OS 9. It is running the OS off of the CD as far as I can tell. But I can see the hard disk (a 9.4Gb one). I put created a folder called 'hello' on it and then rebooted, and looked at the hard...
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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    Ok, thanks. I now need some help getting the darned thing open. I have turned it over and I have got the 'memory' door but other than that I cant seem to get it open (so that I can change the dark disk etc). All of the guides tell me that there are two more screws (I have got the two by the...
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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    Yes, many old PC's needed their BIOS's flashed to support over 137Gb, but I was only planning to put in a 120Gb in there. It currently has 64mb of RAM, but I am planning to put 2x256Mb sticks in there (does it need to be anything special as far as the RAM goes qor will normal PC100/PC133 SD RAM...
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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    Right, got the specs of it, the same as what the link Damrod posted said they were. Now, replacing the hard disk, how hard is it to get to the disk and will any new ATA drive work with or do I need to watch out for things like heat? I want to use the computer as an in-house server, so should I...
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    Help Identifying an Old iMac

    Hi, one of my Dads friends has just given me an old iMac, saying that the hard drive is dead. However, I am not sure what model it is. I have taken a look around but nothing on apple-history seems to match what I have sitting next to me. All I know is that it is puprle, has two firewire and two...
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    Updating to Java 1.5 (Tiger)

    I have changed the Current and CurrentJDK soft links to point to 1.5.0 rather than 1.4.2 and everything seems to be working fine now. Did I do it right?
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    Updating to Java 1.5 (Tiger)

    Hi, I have just got a new iBook, which I am very pleased with (it is my first mac). However, I am having some trouble updating Java. Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) comes with Java 1.4.2, however I am a Java 1.5 (J2SE 5.0) developer and make use of many of the features in Java 1.5. So, I went to apple's...
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