I have just adopted...
Two orphaned/abandoned Macs!
They are old, dusty, beige, and have seen better days... but I couldn't let the opportunity to expand my Mac family (and overall Computer World <grin>) pass me by.
My Friend (guy who owns the offices where my studio is - boss?), has just about had it with a couple of "orphaned" macs (they dont care about them anymore) roaming around the offices and he was trying to figure out where to unload them...
After my other friend (uh, co-worker?) looked at him like he was crazy after it was suggested one of them go into his office.
I thought about it for a split second and said "I'll take them! Both of them!"
Everyone turned to me as if I was crazy! "You can't run os x on them", "Oh I know", "But what are you going to do with them?", "You don't worry about that, you'll see".
Now I've done it, I will have at least two orphaned Macs coming into my studio - that I don't know too much about, and was hopping some of you could help me out.
One of them is a UMAX "Super Mac" H6D0, I belive it's a G3 (correct me if I'm wrong).
The CD-Rom driver is missing and can't load the OS without it. Apperantly there is no support for it in the newer OS CDs. Anyone know where I can find the CDRom driver for it or is there a work-around?
The other is a Quadra 840AV, no idea what processor but I don't think it has a G3, I think it may have whatever processor was out just before the G3. This one works, but the poor thing has been abused so bad for years on end it crawls and crashes all over the place. Itching to redo the hard drive on it from a fresh start.
Now I do NOT expect to use OSX on them, but any idea how close to the latest Mac OS I can get? Can 9.2 go on either of them?
Thanks for any help and/or info on my new adopted babies.
Two orphaned/abandoned Macs!
They are old, dusty, beige, and have seen better days... but I couldn't let the opportunity to expand my Mac family (and overall Computer World <grin>) pass me by.
My Friend (guy who owns the offices where my studio is - boss?), has just about had it with a couple of "orphaned" macs (they dont care about them anymore) roaming around the offices and he was trying to figure out where to unload them...
After my other friend (uh, co-worker?) looked at him like he was crazy after it was suggested one of them go into his office.
I thought about it for a split second and said "I'll take them! Both of them!"
Everyone turned to me as if I was crazy! "You can't run os x on them", "Oh I know", "But what are you going to do with them?", "You don't worry about that, you'll see".
Now I've done it, I will have at least two orphaned Macs coming into my studio - that I don't know too much about, and was hopping some of you could help me out.
One of them is a UMAX "Super Mac" H6D0, I belive it's a G3 (correct me if I'm wrong).
The CD-Rom driver is missing and can't load the OS without it. Apperantly there is no support for it in the newer OS CDs. Anyone know where I can find the CDRom driver for it or is there a work-around?
The other is a Quadra 840AV, no idea what processor but I don't think it has a G3, I think it may have whatever processor was out just before the G3. This one works, but the poor thing has been abused so bad for years on end it crawls and crashes all over the place. Itching to redo the hard drive on it from a fresh start.
Now I do NOT expect to use OSX on them, but any idea how close to the latest Mac OS I can get? Can 9.2 go on either of them?
Thanks for any help and/or info on my new adopted babies.